permanency

Other forms of permanency

plural

permanencies·

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 permanency

What does permanency mean?

permanency means "the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration".

How many syllables are in permanency?

permanency has 4 syllables: per-ma-nen-cy. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for permanency?

Close synonyms include permanence. 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 permanency a common word?

permanency 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.