transiliencyn.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xii. 114 By an unadvised transiliency leaping from the effect to its remotest cause.

2001 N. W. Gillham Life of Sir Francis Galton xx. 292 A transiliency is a saltatory change, a jump or a leap, from one state to another, one race to a new race, one species to a new species.

1769 D'Alenzon tr. ‘Hoamchi-Vam’ Bonze I. 141 A variety of transanimations from that wonderous transiliency of spirit towards matter.

1851 Reynolds's Misc. 5 July 377/3 The transiliency of his thoughts flying lightly from one thing to another.

1913 T. D. J. Farmer Shrines Old & New 7 A lack of continuity may be detected in places in the larger poem, and..it may be condemned by the exacting reader on the ground of transiliency.

2002 Managing Service Quality 12 360/2 The transiliency in science and technology, and most especially in communications, has compelled organisations to think about new ‘resources’ in the pursuit of innovation.