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• n  an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying
• n  the attribute of being brief or fleeting

• But the tagging duo James Powderly and Evan Roth takes transience to a new level, decorating walls with a unique form of temporary, high-tech graffiti they call laser tagging .
• The transcendent ingenuity of "AJ" combines laughable cartoonish miseries with sometimes-profound metaphors for such subjects as the transience of objects and memory.
• Rather his "thoughts of the day" range from imploring Republicans to move to another country to contemplating the transience of clouds.

• transiency
• transitoriness
• brevity
• briefness

News & Articles

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• UT Athletic Director hanging tough
  Half of the Mid-American Conference’s 12 athletic directors are entering their first or second year, a number that reflects the transience of a league viewed as a short stop on a path to bigger pay and greater visibility.
  June 30, 2013 - The Toledo Blade

Quotes

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• Jonathan Franzen in Los Angeles Times
  People who care about literature care about substance and permanence,wrote novelist Jonathan Franzen, author of "The Corrections," in an e-mail. "The essence of electronics is mutability and transience. I can see travel guides and Michael...
• Grace Paley in Los Angeles Times
  In one of her earliest stories, "The Pale Pink Roast," Paley wrote of a character: "He was obligated by the stories of his life to remind her of transience."
• Kim Stanley Robinson in guardian.co.uk
  The compound nature of time, Robinson writes, "creates our perception of both transience and permanence, of being and becoming".