[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being transient; transience.
1667. Decay Chr. Piety, x. ¶ 1. As they resemble the wind in fury…, so they might do also in transientness.
1698. Norris, Pract. Disc., IV. 368. The Pleasure of this Life is … in regard of its Transientness, like the Pleasure of a Dream.
1907. Edin. Rev., July, 177. Suzanne … could not believe in the transientness of [Gibbon’s affections].
