transience

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From transient + -ence.

At last he had found permanence in a life where heretofore had been naught but transience. — The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol, William John Locke
The light gave birth to dancing leaf-shadows, stem-shadows, lustrous streaks, dots, sparkles, and threads of silver sheen of all imaginable variety and transience. — A pair of blue eyes, Thomas Hardy
I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid body in which we walk attired. — The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson

transiency, transitoriness

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