transientness

Convulsions, by the very fact of their violence, show that they are short-lived; and though we, who suffer by them directly, are apt to derive the slenderest solace from the philosophy which demonstrates their transientness, or their utility in certain aspects, it is nevertheless profitable, for various reasons, to make them a subject of remark.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

In supporting-leg-lameness, the transientness of the weight-bearing period upon the affected member is the determining factor in the production of lameness.

Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix

And yet that evening, as I hesitated in the hall, I somehow was unable to grasp that it was real and permanent, the very solidity of the walls and doors paradoxically suggested transientness, the butler a flitting ghost.

A Far Country — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

And yet that evening, as I hesitated in the hall, I somehow was unable to grasp that it was real and permanent, the very solidity of the walls and doors paradoxically suggested transientness, the butler a flitting ghost.

A Far Country — Volume 3 Winston Churchill 1909

And yet that evening, as I hesitated in the hall, I somehow was unable to grasp that it was real and permanent, the very solidity of the walls and doors paradoxically suggested transientness, the butler a flitting ghost.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

In sharp contrast to this permanent character of housework is the transientness of factory and shop work.

The Business of Being a Woman Ida M. Tarbell 1900

About the house lingers a sense of unrest, of expectation, of transientness, even of anxiety and apprehension.

The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886

Elfride's capacity for being wounded was only surpassed by her capacity for healing, which rightly or wrongly is by some considered an index of transientness of feeling in general.

A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884

Now some of your own words, so powerful as they are, -- you are speaking of the Alp and of the "Great Builder" -- of your own transientness, as of the grass upon its sides; and in this very sadness, a sense of strange companionship with past generations, in seeing what they saw.

Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston John Ruskin 1859

There he laid down his weary lacerated head, reflecting on the sorrows of earth, on merit so often unrewarded, and on the nothingness and transientness of all human blessings.

The Oriental Story Book A Collection of Tales Wilhelm Hauff 1814