TRANSIENCE Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

transience

noun

ˈtran(t)-sh(ē-)ən(t)s

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 Spirit's ephemerality is so visible that even Saturday Night Live poked fun at its transience in a recent sketch. —

Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024 The trick is that transience itself takes on a thick, solid thinginess, each canvas barnacled over with paint. —

Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024 Freund, for all her accomplishments, led a life marked by transience and adversity. —

Ian Malone, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2024 Through her work, Akashi explores universal concepts such as time and space, the impermanence of the natural world and the transience of the human body. —

Andrea Onate, WWD, 17 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for transience

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But the movement took off only after the horrors of the Franco-Prussian War drove artists to create works focused on the impermanence of life.

— Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2024
But there is also a Japanese tradition, much influenced by the Buddhist notion of impermanence, that delights in the fleetingness of beauty, as with the cherry blossom that swiftly loses its bloom.

— Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025