noun
Meaning 1
The state of being permanent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
permanence
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
The reciprocal of magnetic inductance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: permanency
Antonyms: impermanence
Broader terms: duration, length
Narrower terms: perpetuity, sempiternity, lastingness, durability, enduringness, strength, imperishability, imperishableness, imperishingness, perdurability, immortality
History
Etymology
From Middle English permanence, permanens, from Middle French permanence, from Medieval Latin permanentia, from Latin permaneō (“to remain; last”).
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: دَوَام (dawām) — the state of being permanent
- Armenian: մնայունություն (mnayunutʻyun) — the state of being permanent
- Armenian: մշտականություն (mštakanutʻyun) — the state of being permanent
- Bulgarian: неизменност (neizmennost) — the state of being permanent
- Bulgarian: постоянство (postojanstvo) — the state of being permanent
- Catalan: permanència — the state of being permanent
- Chinese Mandarin: 永久性 (yǒngjiǔxìng) — the state of being permanent
- Chinese Mandarin: 永恆性 /永恒性 (yǒnghéngxìng) — the state of being permanent
- Finnish: pysyvyys — the state of being permanent
- French: permanence — the state of being permanent
- German: Permanenz — the state of being permanent
- German: Dauerhaftigkeit — the state of being permanent
- Greek: μονιμότητα (monimótita) — the state of being permanent
- Greek: σταθερότητα (statherótita) — the state of being permanent
- Hindi: स्थायित्व (sthāyitva) — the state of being permanent
- Hungarian: állandóság — the state of being permanent
- Hungarian: maradandóság — the state of being permanent
- Hungarian: tartósság — the state of being permanent
- Ido: permano — the state of being permanent
- Irish: buaine — the state of being permanent
- Irish: marthanaí — the state of being permanent
- Irish: síoraíocht — the state of being permanent
- Japanese: 永続 (eizoku) — the state of being permanent
- Japanese: 永久 (eikyū) — the state of being permanent
- Korean: 영구성 (yeongguseong) — the state of being permanent
- Māori: turuturu — the state of being permanent
- Middle English: stedefastnesse — the state of being permanent
- Polish: permanencja — the state of being permanent
- Portuguese: permanência — the state of being permanent
- Russian: постоя́нство (postojánstvo) — the state of being permanent
- Spanish: permanencia — the state of being permanent
- Swedish: beständighet — the state of being permanent
- Vietnamese: sự thường xuyên — the state of being permanent
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