impermanencyn.
/ɪmˈpəːmənənsi/, U.S. /ᵻmˈpərmənənsi/ The quality, state, or fact of being impermanent; impermanence.
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the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [noun] > transience
frailnessa1300
timelinessa1500
transitoriness1550
fleeting1616
temporality1635
wanzingness1642
transiency1647
impermanency1648
undurableness1648
transientness1653
fugacity1656
evanidness1659
fugaciousness1664
timeishness1674
timesomeness1674
volatilenessa1676
fleetingness1709
deciduousness1727
fleetness1727
momentaneousness1727
preterience1730
transience1739
evanescence1751
unpermanency1751
transitiveness1775
caducity1793
impermanence1796
ephemerality1822
passingness1839
transitionalness1880
anitya1882
diariness1891
anicca1904
ephemeralness1911
1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia i. vi. §2. 58 Distilling out of the serious contemplation of the mutability of all worldly happines, a remedy against the evill of that ficklenes and impermanency.
1769 Whitehall Evening-post 13 Apr. 1/2 The impermanency and frequent fluctuations of your Councils prevent any business being done.
1823 London Mag. Oct. 414/1 The domestic nature of the circumstances in which they are placed..sufficiently accounts for the infrequency or impermanency of their friendship amongst themselves.
1895 Brit. Printer 8 149/1 Such gildings as turn black and do not adhere to the leather or cloth exhibit in themselves reasons for their impermanency.
1943 Rotarian Sept. 28/2 The impermanency of employment of young clerks and secretaries and factory girls, prove that, given a choice..most women want a home.
2017 Canberra Times (Nexis) 12 Aug. (Panorama Mag.) 28 It's [sc. wabi-sabi] a Japanese concept about the beauty that lies in imperfection and impermanency.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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