unpermanence
unpermanence is the obsolete form of impermanence.
Meaning of impermanence
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.
Questions about unpermanence
- What is unpermanence the obsolete form of?
- Unpermanence is the obsolete form of impermanence.
Words near unpermanence in the dictionary
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