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impermanence

noun

  1. body and material things are "transient, not permanent" - a spiritual concept in Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism
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noun

Etymology: From Middle French impermanence, equivalent to im- + permanence.

  1. Lack of permanence or continued duration.
  2. The quality or state of being impermanent.

    I watch the ripples change their size / But never leave the stream of warm impermanence and / So the days float through my eyes / But still the days seem the same

  3. Anicca, the doctrine which asserts that all of conditioned existence is transient.
impermanence — meaning, definition (noun) · Vinony