Synonyms for impermanent
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : im-pur-muh-nuhnt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪmˈpɜr mə nənt |
Définition of impermanent
Origin :- 1650s, from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + permanent.
- adj fleeting
- All conditions are impermanent, and so, in the profounder sense, unreal.
- Extract from : « Exotics and Retrospectives » by Lafcadio Hearn
- In such moments the thoughts that visited her were impermanent and fleeting.
- Extract from : « Mr. Incoul's Misadventure » by Edgar Saltus
- The necessity to counteract by impermanent sojourn the permanence of arrest.
- Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce
- Yet the need for religion is impermanent, like all else in life.
- Extract from : « The "Genius" » by Theodore Dreiser
- Their lives are like their work,—impermanent, detached from others', unobserved.
- Extract from : « What eight million women want » by Rheta Childe Dorr
- The state of nature, then, is a fleeting and impermanent process.
- Extract from : « Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work » by P. Chalmers Mitchell
- But it was one of the least frequent and the most impermanent of His moods.
- Extract from : « The Judge » by Rebecca West
- Fashion, as we have shown, had a slow and impermanent effect upon village ideals.
- Extract from : « Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture » by Arthur Hayden
- Even on that view, however, the impermanent type must in some degree have affected that which survived.
- Extract from : « The Evolution of States » by J. M. Robertson
- He who abstracts himself from the "plurality of the phenomenal world" anticipates the cessation of the impermanent.
- Extract from : « The Metaphysic of Christianity and Buddhism » by Dawsonne M. Strong
Antonyms for impermanent
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