impermanence

Etymology

From Middle French impermanence, equivalent to im- + permanence.

impermanence means lack of permanence or continued duration. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 79 out of 100.

Why “impermanence” is a great word

IMPERMANENCE — [Noun] The quality or state of being transient or not lasting indefinitely. From Middle French impermanence, equivalent to im- ("not") + permanence ("lastingness"). Unlike "permanence," which denotes an enduring and unchanging state, or "ephemerality," which emphasizes a brief, often delicate, lifespan, impermanence is the universal, neutral condition of all phenomena. It is the frost pattern vanishing on a sunlit pane, the once-vivid fresco fading to a ghost on the chapel wall, and the quiet, certain knowledge in the heart of every celebration that this, too, shall pass—a truth not of despair, but of ceaseless, poignant becoming.

noun

Lack of permanence or continued duration.
The quality or state of being impermanent.“I watch the ripples change their size / But never leave the stream of warm impermanence and / So the days float through my eyes / But still the days seem the same”
Anicca, the doctrine which asserts that all of conditioned existence is transient.