transient
These people highlight the transience of fame and the lengths some will go to in achieving it.
Such events make us think about our transience and death.
The New Yorker has led a life of transience and loss.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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be a nine days' wonderidiom
casual
casually
eddy
ephemeral
fugacious
fugitive
here
here today, gone tomorrowidiom
impermanence
non-established
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pro tem
provisional
provisionary
sticking plaster
transient
transiently
transitorily
transitory

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People who live or settle somewhere

Examples of transience

transience
In terms of the notions of transience and durability introduced above, the emphasis thus seems to be on transience.
This transience is further highlighted by the fact that there were no permanent political organizations.
Poverty and transience were just the first of the family's suspicious traits.
Within the farmstead itself, however, there is still periodic renewal and transience at play.
Settling in and moving on : transience and older people in care homes.
We now use the transience of nonintersecting walks to show that the time t cannot be too large.
He did not fear his own death, but that of others flung the transience of the world hard into his face.
That both have become signs of transience and meaningless consumption is part of his diagnosis of the modern condition.
Others chose to emphasise the transience of mortal existence.
Logically, these seeds may have a short transience in or on the soil before germination.
The preconscious, object-like condition of termless wandering recalls the primordial transience underlying self-awareness, against which the intentional wakefulness of knowledge defines itself.
The first and the second function contribute to the transience of particular forms, while the third function contributes to its continuity.
They do not represent 'frontier ' communities characterized by high levels of transience and change.
A shuffled synchrony was calculated to estimate the number of synchronous spikes that were simply due to the stimulus transience and not the tight correlation.
Boarding houses increasingly came to be associated in the public mind with transience, immorality and vice.
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