impermanent

[ UK /ɪmpˈɜːmənənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. existing or enduring for a limited time only
  2. not permanent; not lasting
    temporary housing
    a temperary arrangement
    politics is an impermanent factor of life
    impermanent palm cottages
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How To Use impermanent In A Sentence

  • Comparing ancient Venice to current day Istanbul, Sennett captures how cities can capture the impermanent and ephemeral. Todd Reisz: Making Sense of the City
  • Fame and interest are impermanent and varying. Impermanence is the source of suffering.
  • These kosmoi are impermanent, and are not accounted for by purpose or design.
  • The notion that life is transient, that the material is impermanent, is common to many religious and philosophical systems.
  • Now, the difference between "impermanent" and "inconstant" may seem semantic, but it's crucial to the way anicca functions in the Buddha's teachings. All About Change by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
  • Like multiple Babels, huge superstructures would last through eternity, teeming with impermanent subsystems that would mutate over time, beyond their control.
  • I wonder whether wifely cynicism about a husband's mild illness or impermanent injury doesn't have a lot to do with fear.
  • The truth to be unveiled is that mental life is impermanent, lacks lasting substance and is the seedbed of dissatisfaction.
  • It's a small change and perhaps an impermanent one.
  • Nearly 300 congregants -- a virtual rainbow coalition -- are gathered in impermanent rented quarters a mile east of Beverly Hills.
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