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Impermanence
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Lack of permanence or continued duration. uncountable, usually
- 2 the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations wordnet
- 3 The quality or state of being impermanent. uncountable, usually
"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"
- 4 Anicca, the doctrine which asserts that all of conditioned existence is transient. uncountable, usually
Etymology
From Middle French impermanence, equivalent to im- + permanence.
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