Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of permanence or continued duration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Lack of permanence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Want of
permanence orcontinued duration . - noun The quality or state of being
impermanent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations
Etymologies
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Examples
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But even for those who aren't particularly attached to plastic discs (or liner notes, or cover art, or lyric sheets), the impermanence is still problematic.
Boing Boing: January 27, 2002 - February 2, 2002 Archives 2002
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This is pain, he says in the First Noble Truth, where “this” refers to the entire phenomenal field of perception, to all worldly experience, which is characterized by impermanence and some form of suffering or duhkha duh, “bad”; kah, “hole.”
Turning The Wheel CHARLES JOHNSON 2003
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This is pain, he says in the First Noble Truth, where “this” refers to the entire phenomenal field of perception, to all worldly experience, which is characterized by impermanence and some form of suffering or duhkha duh, “bad”; kah, “hole.”
Turning The Wheel CHARLES JOHNSON 2003
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It transports the viewer into that perspective of Buddhist permanent impermanence, which is perhaps a kind of definition for photography itself.
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It is time to apply the idea of impermanence instead of clinging to the notion of authenticity in a world best described by contamination and flux.
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It is time to apply the idea of impermanence instead of clinging to the notion of authenticity in a world best described by contamination and flux.
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It is time to apply the idea of impermanence instead of clinging to the notion of authenticity in a world best described by contamination and flux.
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It is time to apply the idea of impermanence instead of clinging to the notion of authenticity in a world best described by contamination and flux.
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Our distorted view of reality is countered by thinking about aspects of wisdom, such as impermanence, the nature of suffering, selflessness, and the peace that is liberation.
Shantideva's Compendium of Precepts (Laptu) and A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (Chod-j 2010
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Our distorted view of reality is countered by thinking about aspects of wisdom, such as impermanence, the nature of suffering, selflessness, and the peace that is liberation.
Shantideva's Compendium of Precepts (Laptu) and A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life (Chod-jug 2010
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