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Definition of Impermanent
1. Adjective. Not permanent; not lasting. "Temporary housing"
Attributes: Permanence, Permanency
Similar to: Acting, Ephemeral, Fugacious, Passing, Short-lived, Transient, Transitory, Episodic, Evanescent, Fly-by-night, Improvised, Jury-rigged, Makeshift, Interim, Pro Tem, Pro Tempore, Shipboard, Temporal, Terminable, Working
Also: Unstable
Derivative terms: Impermanence, Impermanency, Temporariness
Antonyms: Permanent
2. Adjective. Existing or enduring for a limited time only.
Definition of Impermanent
1. a. Not permanent.
Definition of Impermanent
1. Adjective. Not permanent; momentary. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impermanent
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impermanent
Literary usage of Impermanent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Police Systems by Raymond Blaine Fosdick (1920)
"CHAPTER VII THE CHIEF OF POLICE Inaccurate analogies.— The chief and his relations
to the director. — The impermanent tenure of the chief.— Illustrations. ..."
2. That Unknown Country: Or, what Living Men Believe Concerning Punishment (1888)
"BUDDHIST BELIEFS AS TO RETRIBUTION AFTER DEATH. Fundamental Ideas of Buddhism as
to Finite Being: 1, It is impermanent; 2, ..."
3. Buddhist Dictionary: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrinesby Nyanatiloka by Nyanatiloka (1972)
"impermanent, O Venerable One. "But that which is impermanent, is it something
pleasant or painful? - It is painful, O Venerable One. ..."
4. That Unknown Country: Or, what Living Men Believe Concerning Punishment (1889)
"Fundamental Ideas of Buddhism as to Finite Being: 1, It is impermanent; 2, It \a
Painful; 3, It is only in a Limited Sense Individual. ..."
5. The Life of the Buddha: According to the Pali Canon by Bhikkhu Nanamoli, Ñāṇamoli (1992)
"SN 22:51; 35:155 "All is impermanent. And what is the all that is impermanent?
The eye is impermanent, forms are impermanent, eye-consciousness ..."
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