Transience: meaning, example and synonyms
Transiencen. The state of lasting only a short time; impermanence.
Example
The poet's fondness for cherry blossoms reflects a wider fascination with transience: beauty matters partly because it fades.
- Part of speech
- noun
- Synonyms
- impermanence, brevity, ephemerality, evanescence
- Antonyms
- permanence, durability, endurance, persistence
- Memory tip
- Latin transire = to go across: transient things pass through and away.
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Check yourself: Transience in context
The exhibit of sand paintings, swept away by the artists at the end of each week, invited visitors to reflect on the ______ of all human achievements.
Answer: transience. Art deliberately swept away each week highlights impermanence, or transience. Partiality (bias), an auteur (filmmaker) and incursion (invasion) don't fit a reflection on things that vanish.
Mayflies, which live as winged adults for only a day or so, have long served writers as symbols of ______, reminders that every life is brief.
Answer: transience. A creature that lives a single day symbolizes brevity, or transience. A qualification (reservation), catalyst (trigger) and partiality (bias) have nothing to do with brief lives.