impermanency

Questions about impermanency

What does impermanency mean?

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

How many syllables are in impermanency?

impermanency has 5 syllables and divides as im-per-ma-nen-cy under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for impermanency?

Close synonyms include impermanence. 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.

Is impermanency a common word?

impermanency 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.