Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
impermanence .
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- noun Alternative form of
impermanence .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations
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Examples
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He embarks on a semantics lecture, suggesting the term “shelter” sends the wrong meaning: “The word connotes impermanency.
A Billion Lives Jan Egeland 2008
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He embarks on a semantics lecture, suggesting the term “shelter” sends the wrong meaning: “The word connotes impermanency.
A Billion Lives Jan Egeland 2008
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He embarks on a semantics lecture, suggesting the term “shelter” sends the wrong meaning: “The word connotes impermanency.
A Billion Lives Jan Egeland 2008
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Because the Hmong never had their own independent country, she said they've always felt a sense of impermanency, and a very strong image in their folklore is that of an orphan boy.
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Shelter has connotations of impermanency and we build for permanency.
A Billion Lives Jan Egeland 2008
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Shelter has connotations of impermanency and we build for permanency.
A Billion Lives Jan Egeland 2008
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Shelter has connotations of impermanency and we build for permanency.
A Billion Lives Jan Egeland 2008
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In today's corporatized America, among way too many people, and given the fragility and impermanency of so many social bonds, this is a capital sin, a huge no-no, real friendship-busting stuff.
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Dardie oops, oh what the hell: The impermanency of the blog is one of the biggest flaws here.
Cicerone of NAS Acquiesces in Data Obstruction « Climate Audit 2007
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La Brea — a wide boulevard lined with furniture stores, antique shops, and the occasional shopfront with "Psychic" scrawled across the glass — was imbued with the same impermanency like many of the blocks south of Hollywood, where brick veneer mixed with a frontier-town sensibility.
Soul Learner_Tobsha 2006
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