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impermanent /ɪmˈpəːmənənt /adjectiveNot permanent: life has value precisely because it is transient and impermanent...- Matthias said beauty - being ephemeral, evanescent and impermanent - reminds us of death.
- The pictures reflect an interest in the ephemeral, impermanent, transient nature of the world.
- The moment when the big and small, the impermanent and the permanent, the accepted and the ‘scammy’ meet.
Synonyms temporary, non-permanent, not permanent, transient, transitory, passing, fleeting, momentary, ephemeral, fugitive, fading; short-lived, short-term, short, brief, here today and gone tomorrow literary evanescent, fugacious Derivatives impermanence /ɪmˈpəːmənəns / noun ...- Over many of them there hangs an aura of impermanence, transiency, uncertainty.
- It introduces the concept of process to capture the idea of impermanence, dissolvability and change.
- It is a generation, in other words, that has known impermanence.
impermanency noun ...- I think a lot of us can look back and think that a lot of it is full of impermanency and things that haven't added up to anything really.
- Then the impermanency would be a rather practical good.
- In contrast with the violence of British settlement, the Macassan encounters were generally amicable, probably because their impermanency was seen as less threatening.
impermanently adverb ...- The Labor Standards Law states that such a labor contract does not apply to such an impermanently contracted employee, which a television news reporter is regarded as.
- McKinley's victory in 1896 ushered in a long period of government largely by and for industry (interrupted briefly, and impermanently, by the Progressive Era).
- Not permanently, of course; but time impermanently wasted can mean films forever lost and hungered-after.
Rhymes permanent |