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noun
Lack of permanence or continued duration.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
The quality or state of being impermanent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Synonyms: ephemerality, temporariness, brevity, briefness, caducity, ephemeralness, fleetingness, fugacity, impermanence, transience, transiency, transientness, transitoriness
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noun
Anicca, the doctrine which asserts that all of conditioned existence is transient.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: Buddhism, lifestyle, religion
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noun
the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: impermanency
Antonyms: permanence
Broader terms: duration, length
Narrower terms: temporariness, transience, transiency, transitoriness, mortality
History
From Middle French impermanence, equivalent to im- + permanence.
Across languages
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