[
US
/ˈtɹænziəns/
]
[ UK /tɹˈænsiəns/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈænsiəns/ ]
NOUN
- an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
- the attribute of being brief or fleeting
How To Use transience In A Sentence
- This sublime sphere, set amid the ordered nature of a landscaped garden, combined the functions of memorial and planetarium, conjoining the transience of humanity with the eternal celestial realm.
- We , therefore, treasure it all the more because of its transience.
- 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.
- Imagine if your memory did not undergo transience or blocking.
- Ultimately, it's an exquisite meditation on the transience of life and the sustaining illusions of permanence, including, most destructively of all, love.
- The profundity of the experience demonstrated the transience of everyday knowledge.
- The profundity of the experience demonstrated the transience of everyday knowledge.
- Months ago Christchurch with its settled and established look contrasted cozily with much of the rest of New Zealand's cityscapes which convey an image of contrived modernity bordering on transience. Peter Isaac: Will Christchurch Have to Move Somewhere Else?
- Jane Simonsen, in her study of attempts to "domesticate" Native American women, writes that "implicit in this condemnation of gossip and transience is the suggestion that isolating women in their homes would keep them from speaking out in tribal councils, preserving rituals and stories, and maintaining kinship ties. "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
- The first group includes those books offering serious Buddhist interpretations of the nine stages from the perspective of contemplations on impurity and transience.