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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
impermanent
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Buddhism stresses that life is impermanent and full of suffering.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But all things in this impermanent world are essentially rootless.
▪ Even the history of discontinuities is itself impermanent and discontinuous.
▪ I see their hopes like Masai villages, impermanent and leaving few marks on the landscape.
▪ In fact, the massive increase in migration contained a considerable quantity of impermanent movement - temporary, seasonal or merely nomadic.
▪ They may have been of impermanent materials, such as wood, or the countries may have suffered greater devastation than their neighbours.
▪ Why not respect the intention implied by the choice of impermanent materials and the adoption of quick and casual techniques?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impermanent

Impermanent \Im*per"ma*nent\, a. Not permanent.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
impermanent

1650s, from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + permanent.

Wiktionary
impermanent

a. Not permanent; momentary.

WordNet
impermanent

  1. adj. not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing" [syn: temporary] [ant: permanent]

  2. existing or enduring for a limited time only

Usage examples of "impermanent".

Nagarjuna says: 'If the apprehension of the impermanent as permanent is illusion, why is the apprehension of the indeterminate as impermanent not illusion as well?

If it is impermanent, it is not true, because it is going to disappear.

They, as all peoples and their situations, are an historical accident – as the Elves point out to Frodo – and an impermanent one in the long view.

We face a rising flood of throw-away items, impermanent architecture, mobile and modular products, rented goods and commodities designed for almost instant death.

To the mind at this stage everything seems impermanent, fleeting and the old motives of action are no longer sufficient.

The path with heart was a metaphorical way of asserting that in spite of being impermanent one still had to proceed and had to be capable of finding satisfaction and personal fulfillment in the act of choosing the most amenable alternative and identifying oneself completely with it.

Of all the decisions she had had to make in the past six months, why did this small, impermanent one cause her such difficulty?

An individuating property of heat, for instance, is heat, and one of its generic properties is that it is impermanent.