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imperium |
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impermanence
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impermanence
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun impermanence has 1 sense
- impermanence(n = noun.attribute) impermanency - the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations; Array is a kind of duration, length
has particulars: temporariness, transience, transiency, transitoriness, mortality
Derived forms adjective impermanent2, adjective impermanent1
Antonym: permanence
THESAURUS
impermanence
adaptability, adjustability, alterability, caducity, changeability, changeableness, changefulness, corruptibility, death, ephemerality, ephemeralness, evanescence, finitude, fleetingness, flexibility, fluidity, fugacity, impermanency, instability, malleability, mobility, modifiability, momentariness, mortality, movability, mutability, nonuniformity, perishability, permutability, plasticity, resilience, rubberiness, suppleness, transience, transiency, transientness, transitoriness, volatilityROGET THESAURUS
impermanence
Transientness
N transience, transientness, evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, caducity, mortality, span, nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly, spurt, flash in the pan, temporary arrangement, interregnum, velocity, suddenness, changeableness, transient, transient boarder, transient guest, transient, transitory, transitive, passing, evanescent, fleeting, cursory, short-lived, ephemeral, flying, fugacious, fugitive, shifting, slippery, spasmodic, instantaneous, momentaneous, temporal, temporary, provisional, provisory, deciduous, perishable, mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure, impermanent, brief, quick, brisk, extemporaneous, summary, pressed for time, sudden, momentary, temporarily, pro tempore, for the moment, for a time, awhile, en passant, in transitu, in a short time, soon, briefly, at short notice, on the point of, on the eve of, in articulo, between cup and lip, one's days are numbered, the time is up, here today and gone tomorrow, non semper erit aestas, eheu! fugaces labuntur anni, sic transit gloria mundi, a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of the hour!, dum loquimur fugerit invidia aetas, fugit hora, all that is transitory is but an illusion.
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