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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying [syn: transience, transiency, transitoriness]
2: the attribute of being brief or fleeting [syn: brevity, briefness, transience]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1745 the quality or state of being transient

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Transience Tran"sience, Transiency Tran"sien*cy, n. The quality of being transient; transientness.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you talk about the transience of a situation, you mean that it lasts only a short time or is constantly changing. (FORMAL) ...the superficiality and transience of the club scene.

Moby Thesaurus

adaptability, adjustability, alterability, brevity, briefness, changeability, changeableness, changefulness, compactness, compendiousness, conciseness, curtness, death rate, death toll, flexibility, fluidity, impermanence, instantaneousness, littleness, lowness, malleability, mobility, modifiability, mortality, mortalness, movability, mutability, nonuniformity, permutability, plasticity, resilience, rubberiness, short time, shortness, succinctness, summariness, suppleness, transitoriness