Synonyms for impermanence
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Noun
1. Transience — the quality or state of being impermanent
transience, ephemerality, fugacity, transitoriness, transiency, transientness, caducity, ephemeralness, fleetingness, temporariness
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Definitions
- n. 1
The quality or state of being impermanent.
Related words
- Other spellings
- impermanency
Forms
- Plural
- impermanences → transiences, ephemeralities, fugacities, transiencies…
Example sentences
- transience I never cease to be amazed at the transience of our mortal life.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| impermanence | rising | |
| transience | rising | |
| ephemerality | rising | |
| fugacity | falling | |
| transitoriness | falling | |
| changeableness | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 8 letters
- fugacity, caducity
- 10 letters
- transience3, transiency
- 12 letters
- ephemerality, fleetingness
- 13 letters
- transientness, ephemeralness, temporariness
- 14 letters
- transitoriness, changeableness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (transience3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- finitude
- Deutsch
- Sterblichkeit