impermanence

• impermanency, unpermanence, unpermanency

From Middle French impermanence, equivalent to im- +‎ permanence.

impermanence (usually uncountable, plural impermanences)

1. Lack of permanence or continued duration.
2. The quality or state of being impermanent.

   Synonyms: ephemerality, temporariness; see also Thesaurus:transience

   • 1971, “Changes”, in Hunky Dory, performed by David Bowie:

     I watch the ripples change their size / But never leave the stream of warm impermanence and / So the days float through my eyes / But still the days seem the same

3. (Buddhism) Anicca, the doctrine which asserts that all of conditioned existence is transient.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “impermanence”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

From in- +‎ permanence.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pɛʁ.ma.nɑ̃s/

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impermanence f (plural impermanences)

1. impermanence (state of being impermanent)

• “impermanence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.