transience.

The quality of lasting only for a limited time.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• the transience of beauty
• human transience

On the page

The flowers made the scene’s transience impossible to ignore.

She wrote about human transience without turning the letter into a sermon.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.