Impermanence

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impermanence \Im*per"ma*nence\, Impermanency \Im*per"ma*nen*cy\,
     n.
     Lack of permanence.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  impermanence
       n : the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations
           [syn: {impermanency}] [ant: {permanence}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, volatility