noun
the state or fact of lasting only for a short time; transitoriness
"the transience of life and happiness"
synonims: temporariness, transitoriness, impermanence, brevity, briefness, shortness, ephemerality, short-livedness, momentariness, mutability, instability, volatility; literary evanescence; rare caducity, fugitiveness
"the transience of life on earth"
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Image: Interior, Torre Abbey, documentation for HLF bid Phase 1 c.2004/5, mobile phone photograph of monitor screen
Sound: recorded Torre Abbey, February 2015