Synonyms for transience
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : tran-shuh ns, -zhuh ns, -zee-uh ns |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈtræn ʃəns, -ʒəns, -zi əns |
Top 10 synonyms for transience
- activity
- ailment
- alternation
- ants
- antsiness
- being
- bustle
- capriciousness
- changeability
- changeableness
- conciseness
- concision
- condensation
- crispness
- curtness
- disequilibrium
- disquiet
- disquietude
- disturbance
- economy
- edginess
- ephemerality
- excitability
- fickleness
- fitfulness
- flesh
- flightiness
- fluidity
- frailty
- fretfulness
- hesitation
- Homo sapiens
- human race
- humanity
- humankind
- hurry
- immaturity
- impermanence
- inconsistency
- inconstancy
- inquietude
- insecureness
- irregularity
- irresolution
- jumpiness
- movement
- mutability
- oscillation
- pithiness
- pliancy
- pointedness
- precariousness
- restiveness
- restlessness
- ricketiness
- shakiness
- succinctness
- temporality
- terseness
- transience
- transitoriness
- turbulence
- turmoil
- unease
- uneasiness
- unfixedness
- unpredictability
- unreliability
- unrest
- unsettledness
- unstableness
- unsteadiness
- unsureness
- vacillation
- variability
- volatility
- vulnerability
- wavering
- weakness
- wobbliness
- worriedness
Définition of transience
Origin :- 1745; see transient + -ence.
- As in instability : noun imbalance, inconstancy
- As in mortality : noun humanness
- As in restlessness : noun constant motion; discontent
- As in brevity : noun shortness, briefness
- As in inquietude : noun restlessness
- As in insecureness : noun instability
- As in precariousness : noun instability
- As in restiveness : noun restlessness
- As in ricketiness : noun unstableness
- As in shakiness : noun instability
- As in unease : noun restlessness
- As in unstableness : noun unsteadiness
- As in unsteadiness : noun unstableness
- As in unsureness : noun instability
- Is it, perhaps, a taunt from some one who wishes to remind me of the transience of my office?
- Extract from : « Mystery at Geneva » by Rose Macaulay
- The element of mortality in the form is included in the transience of imagery.
- Extract from : « Heart of Man » by George Edward Woodberry
- On the other hand the mere fact of memory is an escape from transience.
- Extract from : « The Concept of Nature » by Alfred North Whitehead
- Permanence, transience—Sir Ferdinando and his privies were gone, Crome still stood.
- Extract from : « Crome Yellow » by Aldous Huxley
- He put his pain with the transience of her youth and condescended to her so that he need not take note of himself.
- Extract from : « Narcissus » by Evelyn Scott
- This was now the reality; this great stone cathedral slumbering there in its mass, which knew no transience nor heard any denial.
- Extract from : « The Rainbow » by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
- At last he had found permanence in a life where heretofore had been naught but transience.
- Extract from : « The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol » by William J. Locke
- It was like a reminder of the transience of the thing he sought, a challenge rousing him to assert its immortality.
- Extract from : « The Divine Fire » by May Sinclair
Antonyms for transience
- animal life
- balance
- birth
- calm
- calmness
- certainty
- collectedness
- constancy
- contentedness
- ease
- happiness
- harmony
- immortality
- inactivity
- inhumanness
- laziness
- lengthiness
- life
- longevity
- order
- peace
- permanence
- plant life
- relaxation
- rest
- restfulness
- soundness
- stability
- steadfastness
- strength
- sureness
- tranquility
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