TRANSIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transience mean? 

• TRANSIENCE (noun)
  The noun TRANSIENCE has 2 senses:

1. an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying

2. the attribute of being brief or fleeting

  Familiarity information: TRANSIENCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

transience; transiency; transitoriness

Hypernyms ("transience" is a kind of...):

impermanence; impermanency (the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transience"):

fugaciousness; fugacity (the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts))

ephemerality; ephemeralness; fleetingness (the property of lasting for a very short time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The attribute of being brief or fleeting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

brevity; briefness; transience

Hypernyms ("transience" is a kind of...):

duration; length (continuance in time)

Derivation:

transient (lasting a very short time)

 Context examples 

I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid body in which we walk attired.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)