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impermanent
| impermeability
| impermeable
| impermeableness
| impermissibility
| impermissible
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impermanent
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective impermanent has 2 senses
- impermanent(a = adj.all) temporary - not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent factor of life"; "impermanent palm cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing" Derived forms noun impermanence1, noun impermanency1
- impermanent(s = adj.all) Array - existing or enduring for a limited time only; Array Derived forms noun impermanence1, noun impermanency1
Antonym: permanent
OXFORD DICTIONARY
impermanent, adj. not permanent; transient.
Derivative
impermanence n. impermanency n. impermanently adv.
THESAURUS
impermanent
able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, alterable, alterative, brittle, capricious, changeable, checkered, corruptible, deciduous, dying, ephemeral, evanescent, ever-changing, fading, fickle, fleeting, flexible, flitting, fluid, fly-by-night, flying, fragile, frail, fugacious, fugitive, impetuous, impulsive, inconstant, insubstantial, kaleidoscopic, malleable, many-sided, metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, momentary, mortal, movable, mutable, nondurable, nonpermanent, nonuniform, passing, perishable, permutable, plastic, protean, proteiform, resilient, rubbery, short-lived, supple, temporal, temporary, transient, transitive, transitory, undurable, unenduring, unstable, variable, volatileROGET THESAURUS
impermanent
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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