IMPERMANENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impermanence mean? 

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

1. the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPERMANENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of not existing for indefinitely long durations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

impermanence; impermanency

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

duration; length (continuance in time)

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

temporariness (the property of lasting only a short time)

transience; transiency; transitoriness (an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying)

mortality (the quality or state of being mortal)

Antonym:

permanence (the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration)

Derivation:

impermanent (existing or enduring for a limited time only)

impermanent (not permanent; not lasting)