as in shortness
the state or quality of lasting only for a short time builders of elaborate sand castles seem not at all bothered by the impermanency of their creations

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Noun
  • This inherent impermanence makes tariffs totally ineffective at driving long-term corporate decision-making regarding where to locate facilities and jobs.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • In each of these works, Sugimoto expresses his lifelong existential investigation of permanence and impermanence, of what is and is not real, of form and emptiness, and in doing so his works of art capturie the unimaginable and the unseen.
    Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • But transiency in the back of the bullpen extends well beyond Woodward’s arrival.
    Dallas News, Dallas News, 27 July 2022
  • The council will hold a workshop outlining strategies and efforts to remedy homelessness and transiency in the city.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2021
Noun
  • Spirit's ephemerality is so visible that even Saturday Night Live poked fun at its transience in a recent sketch.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The trick is that transience itself takes on a thick, solid thinginess, each canvas barnacled over with paint.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Share [Findings] Researchers proposed replacing the paradigm of extinction with that of evanescence.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • How to make meaning of one’s life, of life itself and the evanescence of memories, in the midst of pain and suffering?
    Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Perhaps the most beautiful thing about these sweets are their ephemerality.
    Caroline Newton, Bon Appétit, 12 Dec. 2024
  • But his understanding of the ephemerality of youth lends emotional impact to what might otherwise have been just killer party music.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
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“Impermanency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/impermanency. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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