transience
(noun)
The quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting.
Examples of transience in the following topics:
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Transience and Encoding Failure
- Both transience and encoding failure can limit our ability to store and, later, recall memories.
- Transience refers to the general deterioration of a specific memory over time.
- Transience is caused by proactive and retroactive interference.
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The Fallibility of Memory
- "Transience" refers to the general deterioration of a specific memory over time.
- Transience is caused by proactive and retroactive interference.
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The Situation Today
- The transience, or rather the potential transience, of relationships is perhaps the single most daunting task facing a new project.
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The Tea Ceremony
- The art of the tea ceremony flourished during the Momoyama period and was influenced by Zen principles of imperfection and transience.
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Process Art
- Change, transience, and embracing serendipity are themes in process art.
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Types of Forgetting
- "Transience" refers to the general deterioration of a specific memory over time.
- Under interference theory, transience occurs because all memories interfere with the ability to recall other memories.
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Flemish Painting in the Baroque Period
- A vanitas is a symbolic still life painting that is meant to illustrate the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transience of all earthly pursuits.