Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Want of permanence or continued duration.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Lack of permanence.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Want of permanence or continued duration.
  • noun The quality or state of being impermanent.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations

Etymologies

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im- +‎ permanence

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