- a variation of impermanence.
impermanency
Americannoun
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Such scenes, 177 by their majesty, their swift impermanency, their colossal and heedless haste, made his heart ache with indefinable regret.
From Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West by Hamlin Garland
While Banneker was relieved at the change, he suspected its impermanency should it prove unsuccessful.
From Success A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams
He has perhaps been here long enough to learn that—to feel the insecurity, the impermanency.
From A Diary Without Dates by Enid Bagnold
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 Hamlin Garland
Not greatly moved either by loving or disliking! overcoming all enemies by the force of his love! the welcome physician for all diseases, the one destroyer of impermanency!
From Sacred Books of the East by Various
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