Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Want of permanence or continued duration.
Wiktionary
- n. Want of permanence or continued duration.
- n. The quality or state of being impermanent.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Lack of permanence.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations
Etymologies
- im- + permanence (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But even for those who aren't particularly attached to plastic discs (or liner notes, or cover art, or lyric sheets), the impermanence is still problematic.”
“This is pain, he says in the First Noble Truth, where “this” refers to the entire phenomenal field of perception, to all worldly experience, which is characterized by impermanence and some form of suffering or duhkha duh, “bad”; kah, “hole.””
“It transports the viewer into that perspective of Buddhist permanent impermanence, which is perhaps a kind of definition for photography itself.”
“It is time to apply the idea of impermanence instead of clinging to the notion of authenticity in a world best described by contamination and flux.”
“Our distorted view of reality is countered by thinking about aspects of wisdom, such as impermanence, the nature of suffering, selflessness, and the peace that is liberation.”
Shantideva's Compendium of Precepts (Laptu) and A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (Chod-jug
“In the case of realizations that are simply deep understandings or insights into various points, such as impermanence, the shortcomings of samsara, and so on, there is no innate progressive order.”
Inspiration (���Blessings���) and Its Relation to Mantras and Oral Transmission
“But Tibetans are psychologically prepared for the Dalai Lama's death, and for reasons beyond the fact that "impermanence" is an article of their faith.”
“They consist of forms of physical phenomena, ways of being aware of things, and certain functional abstractions (such as impermanence) imputable on them.”
The Four Indian Buddhist Tenet Systems Regarding Illusion: A Practical Approach
“You need to have this convinced awareness and firm conviction when meditating single - mindedly on any topic, such as impermanence, the equality of self and others, regarding others as more precious than oneself, bodhichitta, voidness, and so on.”
“Without some method, it is very difficult to train ourselves to keep in mind simultaneously twenty-four insights and qualities such as impermanence, compassion, patience and so forth.”
Taking the Kalachakra Initiation ��� 1 Introduction to Tantra
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘impermanence’.
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Iaan
dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 269 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Words For Novel (Part 3)
fibers, gypsy, polymer, schism, syphilitic garden..., holocaust, scrutinant, contemplate, aftermath, consequence, deadlock, impasse and 153 more...
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Greg's List
precarious, transient, evanescence, impermanence, fugacity, transitoriness, volatility, caducity, span, interregnum, effervescent, mine and 63 more...
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Wicked Cool Words
These words have been posted on my vocabulary tumblr, wickedcoolwords.tumblr.com!
miasma, libation, laconic, denigrating, deontic, accinge, liquescent, quagmire, exiguous, dirigible, lambasted, lambaste and 89 more...
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reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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semiotics, behemothic, resplendent, allegiant, visceral, ratiocination, promontory, amaranthine, pharmacopoeia, dichotomy, haematomesis, uxorios and 157 more...
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noele's list
vertiginous, verdant, mellifluous, serpentine, verdigris, traject, amaranthine, luminous, phosphorescent, temerous, cerulean, shapeshifter and 531 more...
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EAD
Just some random words that speak to me
fecklessness, malarky, absurd, quashed, hyperbole, woebegone, peripatetic, somber, sisyphean, bane, intolerance, bogus and 65 more...
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simple & useful11
solemnity, accursed, commandeer, harmonium, melodeon, harp on, goggle eyed, slavishly, unmasking, trawling, compendium, impermanence and 64 more...
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