Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

impermanence

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.32 in modern English

Syllables: im-per-ma-nence
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Lack of permanence or continued duration.

Uncountable

noun

The quality or state of being impermanent.

Uncountable

noun

Anicca, the doctrine which asserts that all of conditioned existence is transient.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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"

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Middle French

Word Breakdown

Root: impermanence

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

impermanences (plural) impermanency (alternative) unpermanence (alternative) unpermanency (alternative)

Synonyms

ephemerality temporariness brevity briefness caducity ephemeralness fleetingness fugacity impermanence transience transiency transientness

Questions

What does impermanence mean?: Lack of permanence or continued duration.
Where does impermanence come from?: It is traced to Middle French.

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