| 单词 | transience |
| 释义 | transience (once / 74806 pages) n If your grandmother is always talking about how quickly the years go by, she is focused on life's transience, or briefness. Summer's quality of seeming to be over just as it's started can be described as transience — anything that feels impossibly brief has that same attribute. People most often use the noun transience when they're talking about good things, like beautiful days, a nice life, or a fun vacation, that seem to be over in an instant. The word comes from the Latin transiens, "passing over or away." WORD FAMILYtransient: transience, transiency, transiently, transients+/transiency: transiencies USAGE EXAMPLESShe traces her transience to the death of her grandmother, who raised her when her mother was unable. New York Times(Dec 08, 2016) The silent nothingness of the void forms the background of Steinkamp’s existential meditation on time’s passage and life’s transience. Los Angeles Times(Dec 02, 2016) It yields objects that are sleek and fragile, exemplifying an aesthetic shaped by Shinto and Buddhism’s acceptance of transience. Washington Post(Nov 11, 2016) 1n the attribute of being brief or fleeting Syn|Hyper brevity, briefness duration, length continuance in time 2n an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying Syn|Hypo|Hyper transiency, transitoriness fugaciousness, fugacity the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts) ephemerality, ephemeralness, fleetingnessthe property of lasting for a very short time impermanence, impermanency the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations |
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