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Transience   /trˈænziəns/   Listen
Transience

noun
1.
An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.  Synonyms: transiency, transitoriness.
2.
The attribute of being brief or fleeting.  Synonyms: brevity, briefness.






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"Transience" Quotes from Famous Books



... serious or tragic poet, that the fame of Marston rests assuredly established. His intermittent power to rid himself for a while of his besetting faults, and to acquire or assume for a moment the very excellences most incompatible with these, is as extraordinary for the completeness as for the transience of its successful effects. The brief fourth act of "Antonio and Mellida" is the most astonishing and bewildering production of belated human genius that ever distracted or discomfited a student. Verses more delicately beautiful followed by verses more ...
— The Age of Shakespeare • Algernon Charles Swinburne



Words linked to "Transience" :   impermanency, fugaciousness, transiency, briefness, duration, ephemerality, brevity, impermanence, transient, ephemeralness, fugacity, length, fleetingness



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