Antonyms for impermanent


Grammar : Adj
Spell : im-pur-muh-nuhnt
Phonetic Transcription : ɪmˈpɜr mə nənt


Definition of impermanent

Origin :
  • 1650s, from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + permanent.
  • adj fleeting
Example sentences :
  • All conditions are impermanent, and so, in the profounder sense, unreal.
  • Extract from : « Exotics and Retrospectives » by Lafcadio Hearn
  • In such moments the thoughts that visited her were impermanent and fleeting.
  • Extract from : « Mr. Incoul's Misadventure » by Edgar Saltus
  • The necessity to counteract by impermanent sojourn the permanence of arrest.
  • Extract from : « Ulysses » by James Joyce
  • Yet the need for religion is impermanent, like all else in life.
  • Extract from : « The "Genius" » by Theodore Dreiser
  • Their lives are like their work,—impermanent, detached from others', unobserved.
  • Extract from : « What eight million women want » by Rheta Childe Dorr
  • The state of nature, then, is a fleeting and impermanent process.
  • Extract from : « Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work » by P. Chalmers Mitchell
  • But it was one of the least frequent and the most impermanent of His moods.
  • Extract from : « The Judge » by Rebecca West
  • Fashion, as we have shown, had a slow and impermanent effect upon village ideals.
  • Extract from : « Chats on Cottage and Farmhouse Furniture » by Arthur Hayden
  • Even on that view, however, the impermanent type must in some degree have affected that which survived.
  • Extract from : « The Evolution of States » by J. M. Robertson
  • He who abstracts himself from the "plurality of the phenomenal world" anticipates the cessation of the impermanent.
  • Extract from : « The Metaphysic of Christianity and Buddhism » by Dawsonne M. Strong

Synonyms for impermanent

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