impermanence
impermanence noun: lack of permanence or continued duration.
Noun
impermanence (usually uncountable, plural impermanences)
- Lack of permanence or continued duration.
- The quality or state of being impermanent.
- I watch the ripples change their size / But never leave the stream of warm impermanence and / So the days float through my eyes / But still the days seem the same1971, “Changes”, in Hunky Dory, performed by David Bowie
- Synonyms:
- ephemerality, temporariness, brevity, briefness, caducity, ephemeralness, fleetingness, fugacity, transience, transiency
- Anicca, the doctrine which asserts that all of conditioned existence is transient.
impermanence meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Vietnamese
impermanence in Tamil
- நிலையாமை, நிலையின்மை, அசைவு, சலனம், அநித்தியம்
impermanence in Bengali
- impermanence; transience; mutability; the quality of being impermanent or transient
- অনিত্যতা ônittyôta
- impermanence; transience; the quality of being impermanent
- অনিত্য ônittyô
- impermanence; the state of being subject to change or decay
- অস্থায়িত্ব ôsthayitvô
impermanence in Vietnamese
- anicca
- vô thường
Synonyms of impermanence
- ephemerality
- temporariness
- brevity
- briefness
- caducity
- ephemeralness
- fleetingness
- fugacity
- transience
- transiency
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Forms of impermanence
| plural | impermanences |
|---|---|
| alternative form | impermanency |
| alternative form | unpermanence |
| alternative form | unpermanency |
Origin of impermanence
From Middle French impermanence, equivalent to im- + permanence.
Questions about impermanence
- What does impermanence mean?
- Impermanence means lack of permanence or continued duration.
- What is impermanence in Tamil?
- Impermanence in Tamil is நிலையாமை, நிலையின்மை, அசைவு. See Impermanence meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is impermanence?
- Impermanence is a noun.
- What is the plural of impermanence?
- The plural of impermanence is impermanences.
Words near impermanence in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: impermanence (page history and authors); impermanence (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অনিত্য (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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