The attribute of being brief or fleeting

Usage examples of transience.

Schacter catalogs them as transience, persistence, absentmindedness, blocking, bias, misattribution, and suggestibility.

When diversity, however, converges with transience and novelty, we rocket the society toward an historical crisis of adaptation.

THE PACE OF LIFE 36 People of the Future 37 Durational Expectancy 42 The Concept of Transience 44 PART TWO: Transience 49 Chapter 4.

Transience necessarily affects the durational expectancies with which persons approach new situations.

Transience, then, the forcible abbreviation of man's relationships, is not merely a condition of the external world.

He watched the snowflakes fall as he listened to the music, and he was filled with mono no aware for the transience of beauty in the world.

Simultaneously, the organizations needed to control technology will shift from bureaucracy to Ad-hocracy, from permanence to transience, and from a concern with the present to a focus on the future.

Let us, therefore, press ahead in our exploration of life in high transience society.

These involve attempts to control the rates of transience, novelty and diversity in our milieu.

So smelled he even then, and so smells he and breathes he today when, injecting transience and love of life into the atmosphere along with, and I might say enveloped in, his aroma, he descends upon me on visiting days, compelling Bruno to fling open every available door and window the moment Klepp, after elaborate farewells and promises to come again, has left the room.

The chair disintegrated into powdery wood meal, rose up in a cloud which proliferated, a sumptuously illumined monument to transience, and settled on Grandmother Matern, who had not, as might be supposed, taken her cue from the chair and turned to grandmotherly dust.