impermanence
noun
- body and material things are "transient, not permanent" - a spiritual concept in Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: From Middle French impermanence, equivalent to im- + permanence.
- Lack of permanence or continued duration.
- 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”
- Anicca, the doctrine which asserts that all of conditioned existence is transient.