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Meanings of transience in English

An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.

The attribute of being brief or fleeting.

Usage of transience in English
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The transience of students puts pressure on teachers and classes, she said.
Radio NZ
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The transience of the contents of art may be of two kinds.
Heart of Man
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He'd seen threads himself, watched their fluidity, and marveled at their transience.
Radiant Shadows
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Now that he was out of the service, he continued the transience.
61 hours
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As permanence becomes a possibility, pride in transience starts to look questionable.
Wired
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They savour beauty while being tormented by its very transience and fragility.
The Guardian
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Job transience will also become more acceptable than has traditionally been the case.
News.com.au
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Despite the transience of the accommodation, the family remains overjoyed to be here.
The Guardian
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They defined man's mortality and the transience of time as literature's supreme subjects.
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
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Anything for a more impressive place on the spectrum of permanence to transience.
The Irish Times
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That kind of transience was not a recipe for academic success.
True compass: a memoir
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Being a connoisseur of the transience of world pictures gave her an authority-against-authority.
The Guardian
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Phaophanit's installations meditate on the transience of life, memory and loss.
The Guardian
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The melting of the figures represented the transience of human life.
BBC
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When we are forced into transience, we are made more -Egg Morning!
News.com.au
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Watching Daley is a reminder of the transience of it all.
The Guardian
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