as in shortness
the state or quality of lasting only for a short time
the transience of spring in northern climates means residents get to enjoy temperate weather only briefly before the heat and humidity of summer set in
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Recent Examples of transience
But that depth is harder to maintain in the NIL/portal era of player transience.
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Matt Baker, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Although there will always be opposition to change, college sports have entered a new era defined by transience, athlete empowerment, and business acumen rather than the traditional amateur ideal.
—Mark Lasota, Ph.d., Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
Taken together, the series might seem the ultimate Impressionist statement on transience (even an eight-hundred-year-old slab blushes with the hours).
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Spirit's ephemerality is so visible that even Saturday Night Live poked fun at its transience in a recent sketch.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024
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Matt Baker, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Although there will always be opposition to change, college sports have entered a new era defined by transience, athlete empowerment, and business acumen rather than the traditional amateur ideal.
—Mark Lasota, Ph.d., Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
Taken together, the series might seem the ultimate Impressionist statement on transience (even an eight-hundred-year-old slab blushes with the hours).
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Spirit's ephemerality is so visible that even Saturday Night Live poked fun at its transience in a recent sketch.
—Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transience
Noun
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In its charred outside, we its impermanence, and also the contradiction that a charred piece of wood is more fireproof than a living tree.—
Tom Teicholz,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Cherry blossoms, fall leaves, and seasonal changes provide visual metaphors for impermanence.—
Martine Paris,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
Noun
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But transiency in the back of the bullpen extends well beyond Woodward’s arrival.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
27 July 2022
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The council will hold a workshop outlining strategies and efforts to remedy homelessness and transiency in the city.—
Laura Groch,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Feb. 2021
Noun
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Through that love and care, and ephemerality and movement over permanence and rigidity.—
Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
3 Mar. 2025
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There’s an ephemerality to the theatrical experience.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2025
Noun
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To explain why a gag is funny is to crush its soufflé evanescence.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
19 Mar. 2025
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The Stranger with its exploration of another facet of exile and belonging, this time set on a flood-prone German island that exists in a perpetual struggle between evanescence and permanence.—
Jay D. Weissberg,
Deadline,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Transience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transience. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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