transience
/ˈtranzɪəns
/(also transiency /ˈtranzɪənsi/)
noun [mass noun]
The state or fact of lasting only for a short time; transitoriness: the transience of life and happiness...
- It speaks to the way life comes and goes, with its beauties and tragedies, through its balletic recording of transience and impermanence.
- 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.
Synonyms
temporariness, transitoriness, impermanence, brevity, briefness, shortness, ephemerality, short-livedness, momentariness, mutability, instability, volatility
literary evanescence
rare caducity, fugitiveness
- green flash
- green-flesh
- green fluorescent protein
- greenfly
- green food
- green-friendly
- green frog
- green fuel
- Green function
- greengage
- green gill
- green-gilled
- green ginger
- green gland
- green glass
- Green Goddess
- green gold
- green goods
- green-goods man
- green goose
- green gown
- green gram
- greengrocer
- greengroceress
- greengrocer's apostrophe