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单词 impermanent
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Definition of impermanent in English:

impermanent

adjectiveɪmˈpəːmənəntɪmˈpərmənənt
  • Not permanent.

    非永久的,暂时的

    life has value precisely because it is transient and impermanent
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The pictures reflect an interest in the ephemeral, impermanent, transient nature of the world.
    • Perhaps it was once the case that artists were more likely to use impermanent materials in temporary installations than in works intended for longer existence.
    • They exude the warmth of home, albeit an itinerant, impermanent home of temporary balconies.
    • The notion that life is transient, that the material is impermanent, is common to many religious and philosophical systems.
    • It's a small change and perhaps an impermanent one.
    • We suffer because we imagine what is not self to be self, what is impermanent to be permanent, and what, from an ultimate viewpoint, is pain to be pleasure.
    • That is the fact that life is evanescent, impermanent.
    • As a result, their masks are impermanent in many cases.
    • Life is suffering insofar as a healthy body can get sick and die, our thoughts cannot be sustained, and sensations, emotions and consciousness are all impermanent.
    • But misfortune had not finished with him: collectors dismissed the collages as fragile, impermanent; the exhibitions failed.
    • The moment when the big and small, the impermanent and the permanent, the accepted and the ‘scammy’ meet.
    • The things that belong to the visible realm are transitory and impermanent.
    • Even the permanent collection appears impermanent.
    • He seeks benefit from things which do him injury, thinks the impermanent to be permanent, sees the highest good in that which is evil, and yet he does not see that death is coming upon him.
    • His thoughts on Futurist architecture were in accordance with the speed and changeability of modernity, although the monumental buildings in his drawings do not seem to be of the impermanent and transient kind.
    • Wisdom sees the impermanent, ephemeral nature of experience and the basic unreliability of these changing phenomena.
    • Like multiple Babels, huge superstructures would last through eternity, teeming with impermanent subsystems that would mutate over time, beyond their control.
    • Matthias said beauty - being ephemeral, evanescent and impermanent - reminds us of death.
    • The new government is cautiously pronounced capable; the return of tourists this summer has suggested this lull may be less impermanent than others.
    • Organic and impermanent, the piece is at the mercy of its visitors: as they add to it, the work becomes a mishmash of influences, desires and visions, all of which can and will be amalgamated.
    Synonyms
    temporary, non-permanent, not permanent, transient, transitory, passing, fleeting, momentary, ephemeral, fugitive, fading
    short-lived, short-term, short, brief, here today and gone tomorrow
    literary evanescent, fugacious

Derivatives

  • impermanence

  • nounɪmˈpəːmənənsɪmˈpərmənəns
    mass noun
    • The state or fact of lasting for only a limited period of time.

      she describes the impermanence of human existence
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It introduces the concept of process to capture the idea of impermanence, dissolvability and change.
      • It is a generation, in other words, that has known impermanence.
      • Over many of them there hangs an aura of impermanence, transiency, uncertainty.
  • impermanency

  • nounɪmˈpəːmənənsɪmˈpərmənəns
    mass noun
    • The state or fact of lasting for only a limited period of time.

      she describes the impermanence of human existence
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Then the impermanency would be a rather practical good.
      • In contrast with the violence of British settlement, the Macassan encounters were generally amicable, probably because their impermanency was seen as less threatening.
      • I think a lot of us can look back and think that a lot of it is full of impermanency and things that haven't added up to anything really.
  • impermanently

    非永久的,暂时的

  • adverb
    • The Labor Standards Law states that such a labor contract does not apply to such an impermanently contracted employee, which a television news reporter is regarded as.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • McKinley's victory in 1896 ushered in a long period of government largely by and for industry (interrupted briefly, and impermanently, by the Progressive Era).
      • Not permanently, of course; but time impermanently wasted can mean films forever lost and hungered-after.

Rhymes

permanent

Definition of impermanent in US English:

impermanent

adjectiveimˈpərmənəntɪmˈpərmənənt
  • Not permanent.

    非永久的,暂时的

    life has value precisely because it is transient and impermanent
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's a small change and perhaps an impermanent one.
    • The new government is cautiously pronounced capable; the return of tourists this summer has suggested this lull may be less impermanent than others.
    • Perhaps it was once the case that artists were more likely to use impermanent materials in temporary installations than in works intended for longer existence.
    • The notion that life is transient, that the material is impermanent, is common to many religious and philosophical systems.
    • Wisdom sees the impermanent, ephemeral nature of experience and the basic unreliability of these changing phenomena.
    • The things that belong to the visible realm are transitory and impermanent.
    • Life is suffering insofar as a healthy body can get sick and die, our thoughts cannot be sustained, and sensations, emotions and consciousness are all impermanent.
    • The pictures reflect an interest in the ephemeral, impermanent, transient nature of the world.
    • As a result, their masks are impermanent in many cases.
    • Matthias said beauty - being ephemeral, evanescent and impermanent - reminds us of death.
    • We suffer because we imagine what is not self to be self, what is impermanent to be permanent, and what, from an ultimate viewpoint, is pain to be pleasure.
    • Organic and impermanent, the piece is at the mercy of its visitors: as they add to it, the work becomes a mishmash of influences, desires and visions, all of which can and will be amalgamated.
    • They exude the warmth of home, albeit an itinerant, impermanent home of temporary balconies.
    • He seeks benefit from things which do him injury, thinks the impermanent to be permanent, sees the highest good in that which is evil, and yet he does not see that death is coming upon him.
    • Even the permanent collection appears impermanent.
    • That is the fact that life is evanescent, impermanent.
    • His thoughts on Futurist architecture were in accordance with the speed and changeability of modernity, although the monumental buildings in his drawings do not seem to be of the impermanent and transient kind.
    • But misfortune had not finished with him: collectors dismissed the collages as fragile, impermanent; the exhibitions failed.
    • Like multiple Babels, huge superstructures would last through eternity, teeming with impermanent subsystems that would mutate over time, beyond their control.
    • The moment when the big and small, the impermanent and the permanent, the accepted and the ‘scammy’ meet.
    Synonyms
    temporary, non-permanent, not permanent, transient, transitory, passing, fleeting, momentary, ephemeral, fugitive, fading
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