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单词 transience
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Definition of transience in English:

transience

(also transiency)
nounˈtranzɪəns
mass noun
  • The state or fact of lasting only for a short time; transitoriness.

    the transience of life and happiness
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In that moment, I could have been the only person in the world, and although I was aware of its transience, I appreciated it like a bubble, with its fragility only enhancing its beauty.
    • Getting anywhere in this country takes times, but Mali shows not only the transience of empires, it shows you can make wonderful things, even of mud.
    • It speaks to the way life comes and goes, with its beauties and tragedies, through its balletic recording of transience and impermanence.
    • What is especially interesting is the resonance with today, especially the comparison between the permanence of the civil service and the transience of almost anything else.
    • Ultimately, it's an exquisite meditation on the transience of life and the sustaining illusions of permanence, including, most destructively of all, love.
    Synonyms
    temporariness, transitoriness, impermanence, brevity, briefness, shortness, ephemerality, short-livedness, momentariness, mutability, instability, volatility
    literary evanescence
    rare caducity, fugitiveness
 
 

Definition of transience in US English:

transience

(also transiency)
nounˈtranCHəns
  • The state or fact of lasting only for a short time; transitory nature.

    the transience of life and happiness
    Example sentencesExamples
    • What is especially interesting is the resonance with today, especially the comparison between the permanence of the civil service and the transience of almost anything else.
    • It speaks to the way life comes and goes, with its beauties and tragedies, through its balletic recording of transience and impermanence.
    • Getting anywhere in this country takes times, but Mali shows not only the transience of empires, it shows you can make wonderful things, even of mud.
    • In that moment, I could have been the only person in the world, and although I was aware of its transience, I appreciated it like a bubble, with its fragility only enhancing its beauty.
    • Ultimately, it's an exquisite meditation on the transience of life and the sustaining illusions of permanence, including, most destructively of all, love.
    Synonyms
    temporariness, transitoriness, impermanence, brevity, briefness, shortness, ephemerality, short-livedness, momentariness, mutability, instability, volatility
 
 
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