impermanence(impermanent)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Continuous & permanent
abiding
abidingly
ad infinitum
around-the-clock
be
here to stayidiom
immanence
immanent
immanently
imperishable
on the bounceidiom
on the spinidiom
on the trotidiom
perennial
permanency
unrelentingly
unrelieved
unrelievedly
unremitting
unremittingly

Examples of permanence

permanence
The funeral spaces are places of the mytho-poetic reconstruction of life, and are linked to the permanence of life.
In this case, the parasite increases the permanence of a habitat that would normally be too ephemeral to support many epibionts.
Its lavish womb unceasingly ensures the permanence of the life-cycle.
This process of construction continues all through one's life, even if some elements in a person's identity have more permanence than others.
This will depend to a large degree on the perceived permanence of the earnings changes.
In the end, we accept at our peril a too-simple distinction between the permanence of print versus the instability of handwriting.
I think that what it asks goes beyond the subject's understanding that physical objects have permanence.
The dominance of its symmetry communicates a sense of order, harmony, power and permanence.
Moreover, they were expected to take turns for night permanence in the offices, as well as for the weekly rest-day.
The precise degree of permanence needs to be analysed and demonstrated empirically.
Whether they were active or separating, skilled or unskilled, permanence and 'company loyalty' did not characterize the arsenal work force.
They conferred an element of permanence: the small businessman was always around, he generally lived in the same district as he worked.
The main advantage of selection is the relative permanence of the genetic improvement achieved and often the extent of change.
Marriage carried the public badge of commitment and it seemed as if the grandparent generation still saw it as a route to security and permanence.
To say that the object permanence literature is an unwieldy one is something of an understatement.
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