English Explanatory Dictionary

impermanence

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Lack of permanence or continued duration.
  2. The quality or state of being impermanent.
  3. Anicca, the doctrine which asserts that all of conditioned existence is transient.

Word forms

impermanence impermanences impermanency unpermanence unpermanency

Etymology

From Middle French impermanence, equivalent to im- + permanence.

Synonyms

ephemerality temporariness brevity briefness caducity ephemeralness fleetingness fugacity impermanence transience transiency transientness transitoriness
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