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The property of not existing for indefinitely long durations
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impermanence
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Wikipedia
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Impermanence , also called Anicca or Anitya , is one of the essential doctrines and a part of three marks of existence in Buddhism . The doctrine asserts that all of conditioned existence, without exception, is "transient, evanescent, inconstant". All temporal ...
WordNet
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n. the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations [syn: impermanency ] [ant: permanence ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1796, from impermanent + -ence . Impermanency is from 1640s.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impermanence \Im*per"ma*nence\, Impermanency \Im*per"ma*nen*cy\, n. Lack of permanence.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Want of permanence or continued duration. 2 The quality or state of being impermanent.
Usage examples of impermanence.
The inevitable impermanence of every attempted solution led foreign statesmen to the conclusion that Samoa could be governed only by international agreement, and therefore a series of conferences was held between 1885 and 1889 to try to work out a formula.
In the beginning, there were always dislocations -- industries made obsolete, inflexible ruling classes displaced, a general aura of impermanence in the lives of the beings involved.
Her death in that transporter mishap was the defining moment that taught him the true impermanence of physical existence….
As always, mama-sans and older, more experienced courtesans gentled them, repeating the same dogma that Meikin was saying to Teko, Koiko's maiko, now in tears, who was to make her debut as a courtesan this night, "Dry your tears, Moonbeam, accept without thinking the sad impermanence of life, accept what lies ahead, laugh with your sisters, enjoy wine and song and your pretty clothes, gaze at the moon or at a flower and drift with the current of life like a gourd drifting downstream.
This tendency toward self-destructing impermanence lent to her romantic feelings the further quality of being transitory in the sense of being always poised with bags packed in readiness to depart.
Ah, a message of impermanence, a symbol saluting traditionthe power of the old ways of life and all that.