transience

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Transience is the property of something pass to have. As a property of material or of all things, it is an important motif in art , philosophy and religion , for example

in dialectical logic as an aspect of becoming
in the Judeo-Christian tradition, see Vanitas , memento mori , sic transit gloria mundi
in Buddhism, see Anicca
in Japanese aesthetics, see Mono no aware
in modern art, see performance (art)

The opposite of impermanence is eternity .

See also

Wiktionary: Impermanence - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Transience of Beauty , sonnet by Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, published 1695