[
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
- Their didactic import encompasses salient aspects of Buddhist doctrine, especially the traditional notion of human transience.
- The different views can't change its specialty that it flows like water and moves in transience.
- No wonder the hamami is both a time of intense celebration but also slight melancholia, for the Japanese have realised that there's a nostalgia to all beauty and a transience in the best moments of life.
- It is notorious that even a renowned piece of sculptured marble which produces in one person a kind of religious tranquility and philosophic contemplation, with a sense of the eternity of form and the transience of passion, may at the same instant excite in another beholder such shamefastness that he will cry out for fig leaves, or such unruly emotions as, unchecked, may disrupt society. Unprintable
- What is especially interesting is the resonance with today, especially the comparison between the permanence of the civil service and the transience of almost anything else.
- It speaks to the way life comes and goes, with its beauties and tragedies, through its balletic recording of transience and impermanence.
- He should perhaps be grateful for that, as ‘fashion’ per se signifies transience and consequently unimportance.
- Candles, half-empty vases and clocks suggest the passing of time, which, in traditional vanitas paintings, can refer to both the transience of life and the speed with which death can make its claim.
- 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.
- It transcends transience and therefore reconciles us to the most fundamental condition of our existence.