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• a variation of impermanence.

impermanency

American  

[im-pur-muhn-uhn-see] / ɪmˈpɜr mən ən si /

noun

1. the quality or condition of being impermanent.

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Example Sentences

"The three reflections on the impermanency, suffering, and unreality of the body are three gates leading to the city of Nirwana."

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

Showers of rain alternated with vivid sunshine, and through the air, heavy with perfume, the mourning dove sang with sad insistence as if to remind us of the impermanency of May's ineffable loveliness.

From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin

Though the people never much occupied themselves with the profounder philosophy of the foreign faith, its doctrine of impermanency must, in course of time, have profoundly influenced national character.

From Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints by Hearn, Lafcadio

Human life suddenly seemed fleeting and of a part with the impermanency and change of the westward moving Border Line.—Like the wild flowers she had gathered, Harriet was now a fragrant memory.

From A Son of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin

If any shadow drifted across this sunny year it fell from a haunting sense of the impermanency of my leisure.

From A Son of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin