transience

Noun

Meaning

Alt. of Transiency

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

impermanence transiency temporariness evanescence humanity mortality anxiety instability condensation compactness insecurity fluctuation brevity shortness wavering

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Antonyms

extension duration continuity consistency continuation stretching

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Hyponyms

ephemerality fugaciousness

Related terms

transient transiently

Examples

Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience. Baldur von Schirach

If time is a fading dream Then it would be like a flower Even if destined to fall It would be all the more valuable in its transience. Ayumi Hamasaki

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. Malcolm Muggeridge

There's so much nonsense about human inconstancy and the transience of all emotions. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place. Ayn Rand

I like the transience of Klimt paintings. Steve Coogan

Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it. Said Nursi

Close letter words and terms

transialidase transidentity transie transiency transient transient apical ballooning syndrome