transience, transiency (or sien as shen)

[Eng. transien(t); -ce, -cy.] 1. The quality or state of being transient; tran sientne . "Here, from time and transience won, Beauty has her charms resigned." Brooke: An Anthem. 2. Something transient, or not durable or per manent. "Poor sickly transiencies that we are, coveting we know not what."-Carlyle: Reminiscences, i. 318. transit