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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying;
[syn: transience, transiency, transitoriness]

2. the attribute of being brief or fleeting;
[syn: brevity, briefness, transience]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Transience \Tran"sience\, Transiency \Tran"sien*cy\, n.
   The quality of being transient; transientness.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

transience
    n 1: an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending
         or dying [syn: transience, transiency,
         transitoriness]
    2: the attribute of being brief or fleeting [syn: brevity,
       briefness, transience]