as in shortness
the state or quality of lasting only for a short time
the transience of spring in northern climates means residents get to enjoy temperate weather only briefly before the heat and humidity of summer set in
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Recent Examples of transience
Except that now there is no moment to mourn and no transience to flip on its head—he’s already done that.
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Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
In many ways, nature serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion—its rebirth, renewal, and cyclicity, as well as its transience, ephemerality, and evanescence.
—Irene Kim, Vogue, 28 June 2024
Finally, there is the issue of partly cloudy skies and the transience of clouds themselves.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2024
But the show also tries to convey the view that death epitomizes the transience of life and therefore must be gracefully accepted and sometimes even sought out, since a good, honorable death will define you forever.
—Ryu Spaeth, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2024
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Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
In many ways, nature serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion—its rebirth, renewal, and cyclicity, as well as its transience, ephemerality, and evanescence.
—Irene Kim, Vogue, 28 June 2024
Finally, there is the issue of partly cloudy skies and the transience of clouds themselves.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2024
But the show also tries to convey the view that death epitomizes the transience of life and therefore must be gracefully accepted and sometimes even sought out, since a good, honorable death will define you forever.
—Ryu Spaeth, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2024
See all Example Sentences for transience
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transience
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This inherent impermanence makes tariffs totally ineffective at driving long-term corporate decision-making regarding where to locate facilities and jobs.Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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In each of these works, Sugimoto expresses his lifelong existential investigation of permanence and impermanence, of what is and is not real, of form and emptiness, and in doing so his works of art capturie the unimaginable and the unseen.Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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But transiency in the back of the bullpen extends well beyond Woodward’s arrival.Dallas News, Dallas News, 27 July 2022
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The council will hold a workshop outlining strategies and efforts to remedy homelessness and transiency in the city.Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021
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Perhaps the most beautiful thing about these sweets are their ephemerality.Caroline Newton, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2024
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But his understanding of the ephemerality of youth lends emotional impact to what might otherwise have been just killer party music.Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
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How will societies grapple with the evanescence of human decision-making and the disintermediation of other vocational activities?Douglas B. Laney, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Transience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transience. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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