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Definition of Transience
1. Noun. An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.
Generic synonyms: Impermanence, Impermanency
Specialized synonyms: Fugaciousness, Fugacity, Ephemerality, Ephemeralness, Fleetingness
Derivative terms: Transient, Transitory
2. Noun. The attribute of being brief or fleeting.
Generic synonyms: Duration, Length
Derivative terms: Brief, Brief, Transient
Definition of Transience
1. n. The quality of being transient; transientness.
Definition of Transience
1. Noun. The quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting. ¹
2. Noun. An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Transience
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transience
Literary usage of Transience
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vista (1921)
"Joyless — what souls could be duller Seeking for substance in colour : Sunsets
and moonshine and music and living, Move pass and perish, to transience ..."
2. Sabbath evening readings on the New Testament by John Cumming (1857)
"RULERS AND SUBJECTS—ORIGIN OP RULERS—DUTIES OF—TAXES —transience OF TIME. ST.
PAUL, speaking by the inspiration of the Spirit of God, assumes in this ..."
3. General Principles of the Philosophy of Nature: With an Outline of Some of by John Bernhard Stallo (1848)
"This transience must exhibit itself, therefore, in the stated Exterior, ...
Otherwise expressed : the Exterior is but a transience in position ; a position ..."
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