PERMANENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does permanence mean? 

• PERMANENCE (noun)
  The noun PERMANENCE has 1 sense:

1. the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration

  Familiarity information: PERMANENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERMANENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

permanence; permanency

Hypernyms ("permanence" is a kind of...):

duration; length (continuance in time)

Attribute:

lasting; permanent (continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place)

impermanent; temporary (not permanent; not lasting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "permanence"):

perpetuity; sempiternity (the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless))

durability; enduringness; lastingness; strength (permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force)

imperishability; imperishableness; imperishingness (the property of being resistant to decay)

perdurability (the property of being extremely durable)

immortality (the quality or state of being immortal)

Antonym:

impermanence (the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations)

Derivation:

permanent (continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place)

 Context examples 

The anatomic site at which a material such as a tissue, graft, device or radioactive material is inserted with some intended degree of permanence.

(Implantation Site, NCI Thesaurus)

It is upon the permanence of certain types of animal life upon the earth.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And she was spirit, first and always spirit, etherealized essence of life, calm as her calm eyes, and sure of permanence in the changing order of the universe.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He is a noble fellow; and let me tell you from experience of men, that one who would do as he did in going down that wall and to that room—ay, and going a second time—is not one to be injured in permanence by a shock.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He certainly wished her to go willingly, but he as certainly wished her to be heartily sick of home before her visit ended; and that a little abstinence from the elegancies and luxuries of Mansfield Park would bring her mind into a sober state, and incline her to a juster estimate of the value of that home of greater permanence, and equal comfort, of which she had the offer.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

To anything like a permanence of abode, or limitation of society, Henry Crawford had, unluckily, a great dislike: he could not accommodate his sister in an article of such importance; but he escorted her, with the utmost kindness, into Northamptonshire, and as readily engaged to fetch her away again, at half an hour's notice, whenever she were weary of the place.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)