impermanence

Other forms of impermanence

plural

impermanences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about impermanence

What does impermanence mean?

impermanence means "the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations".

How many syllables are in impermanence?

impermanence has 4 syllables: im-per-ma-nence. The stress falls on "per".

What is another word for impermanence?

Close synonyms include impermanency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of impermanence?

The recorded antonyms are permanence.

Is impermanence a common word?

impermanence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.