as in shortness
the state or quality of lasting only for a short time
because of the transiency of their residency, college students often display little interest in the welfare of the towns where they go to school
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Recent Examples of transiency
But transiency in the back of the bullpen extends well beyond Woodward’s arrival.
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Dallas News, 27 July 2022
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
Logistical complications to vaccinating in prisons could include the transiency of inmates, who cycle through jails and prisons for highly variable timeframes -- an extra big problem with a two-dose immunization.
—Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2020
The town suffered from high rates of transiency and wild economic swings, which contributed to one of the country’s highest suicide rates.
—Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 30 May 2018
Dallas News, 27 July 2022
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
Logistical complications to vaccinating in prisons could include the transiency of inmates, who cycle through jails and prisons for highly variable timeframes -- an extra big problem with a two-dose immunization.
—Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2020
The town suffered from high rates of transiency and wild economic swings, which contributed to one of the country’s highest suicide rates.
—Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 30 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transiency
Noun
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Fallen blossoms whisper on the damp earth, a fleeting poem of transience.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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While these two exhibits may feel distinct, for Suh, all of his work interrogates the boundaries between personal and public space, and the conditions that force transience or enable permanence.—
Megan Williams,
CNN Money,
1 May 2025
Noun
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These works, made entirely in nature and left to be reclaimed by it, speak to a deep reverence for impermanence and the fleeting beauty of the world around us.—
Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
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Her installation of long, wide sheets of light-sensitive film, draped from the ceiling and eventually bearing traces of sunlight and heat, was one of the highlights of last year’s Whitney Biennial, part of her ongoing investigations into impermanence, inheritance, memory, and time.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
29 Apr. 2025
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Mohammadi works with materials that disintegrate, for instance halva, soap, letting their ephemerality echo the fragility of memory.—
Nargess Banks,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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Jia’s sense of the ephemerality of the medium, and of the world that the medium reflects, has seldom been more stirringly profound.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
2 May 2025
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To explain why a gag is funny is to crush its soufflé evanescence.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
19 Mar. 2025
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The Stranger with its exploration of another facet of exile and belonging, this time set on a flood-prone German island that exists in a perpetual struggle between evanescence and permanence.—
Jay D. Weissberg,
Deadline,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Transiency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transiency. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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