as in shortness
the state or quality of lasting only for a short time because of the transiency of their residency, college students often display little interest in the welfare of the towns where they go to school

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of transiency But transiency in the back of the bullpen extends well beyond Woodward’s arrival. Dallas News, 27 July 2022 The council will hold a workshop outlining strategies and efforts to remedy homelessness and transiency in the city. Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021 Logistical complications to vaccinating in prisons could include the transiency of inmates, who cycle through jails and prisons for highly variable timeframes -- an extra big problem with a two-dose immunization. Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Dec. 2020 The town suffered from high rates of transiency and wild economic swings, which contributed to one of the country’s highest suicide rates. Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 30 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transiency
Noun
  • Much of Gilbert’s early work displays an awareness of both the profundity and the transience of romance, and of the many different universes that one life can open into or contain.
    Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The April cherry trees, with their brief pink opulence, seem infused with the spirit of mono no aware—the Japanese idea of the transience of things, the gentle sadness yet also the beauty of impermanence.
    Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The April cherry trees, with their brief pink opulence, seem infused with the spirit of mono no aware—the Japanese idea of the transience of things, the gentle sadness yet also the beauty of impermanence.
    Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The impermanence of these structures, contrasted with the enduring river, is a reminder of history's ebb and flow.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The show reflects on the ephemerality of cultural memory.
    Douglas Markowitz, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Yet even in its ephemerality, dumb dumb culture can offer catharsis, laughter or distraction — which, in the right moment, can feel like salvation.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • To explain why a gag is funny is to crush its soufflé evanescence.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The Stranger with its exploration of another facet of exile and belonging, this time set on a flood-prone German island that exists in a perpetual struggle between evanescence and permanence.
    Jay D. Weissberg, Deadline, 19 Feb. 2025

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Transiency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transiency. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!