Impermanent
adjective
Not lasting forever, or not lasting a long time.
Their happiness was impermanent as the rain started pouring on their picnic.
Often appears as...
- impermanent state
- impermanent solution
adjective
Not lasting forever, or not lasting a long time.
Their happiness was impermanent as the rain started pouring on their picnic.
Often appears as...
- impermanent state
- impermanent solution
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Pro Tip 1/3Temporary Emotions
Use 'impermanent' to describe feelings that change like joy, anger, or sadness.
Her joy at winning the trophy was impermanent, as the reality of responsibilities set in.
Pro Tip 2/3Changeable Weather
Reference to weather or seasons highlights their natural inconsistency over time.
The sunny skies were impermanent, soon to be replaced by a blanket of clouds.
Pro Tip 3/3Not for Relationships
Avoid using 'impermanent' for human relationships unless you mean they're intentionally short-term.
Their partnership was strategic and impermanent, meant to last only for the duration of the project.
Pro Tip 1/3Temporary Emotions
Use 'impermanent' to describe feelings that change like joy, anger, or sadness.
Her joy at winning the trophy was impermanent, as the reality of responsibilities set in.
Pro Tip 2/3Changeable Weather
Reference to weather or seasons highlights their natural inconsistency over time.
The sunny skies were impermanent, soon to be replaced by a blanket of clouds.
Pro Tip 3/3Not for Relationships
Avoid using 'impermanent' for human relationships unless you mean they're intentionally short-term.
Their partnership was strategic and impermanent, meant to last only for the duration of the project.
Pro Tip 1/3Temporary Emotions
Use 'impermanent' to describe feelings that change like joy, anger, or sadness.
Her joy at winning the trophy was impermanent, as the reality of responsibilities set in.
Pro Tip 2/3Changeable Weather
Reference to weather or seasons highlights their natural inconsistency over time.
The sunny skies were impermanent, soon to be replaced by a blanket of clouds.
Pro Tip 3/3Not for Relationships
Avoid using 'impermanent' for human relationships unless you mean they're intentionally short-term.
Their partnership was strategic and impermanent, meant to last only for the duration of the project.
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Video examples
Floating cities, the...
and we're speaking with the Paris Olympics to put a small floating village on the Seine. So very much this kind of, almost like nomadic, impermanent architecture. And the waterfronts of our cities are experiencing a lot of change. Economic change, industrial change and climate change.
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Re-Envisioning Reality -...
What I'm doing is I'm just giving it logic so it has randomness. I'm just giving it randomness that mimics life. There's this obsession with most artists with the idea of exploding the fourth dimension, where the physical and impermanent meet.
Video examples
Floating cities, the...
and we're speaking with the Paris Olympics to put a small floating village on the Seine. So very much this kind of, almost like nomadic, impermanent architecture. And the waterfronts of our cities are experiencing a lot of change. Economic change, industrial change and climate change.
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Re-Envisioning Reality -...
What I'm doing is I'm just giving it logic so it has randomness. I'm just giving it randomness that mimics life. There's this obsession with most artists with the idea of exploding the fourth dimension, where the physical and impermanent meet.
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Quote examples
Wilhelm Wundt
German Psychologist
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.
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Adrianne Lenker
American Musician
Everything is fleeting and passing and impermanent in life. Relationships, people, our finite physical forms... We let go of our childhoods, we let go of different parts of our body, we lose elasticity in our skin, and we lose hair and we lose teeth.
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Jason Silva
American Director
For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
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K. D. Lang
Canadian Musician
Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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Jim Drain
American Artist
Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.
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Patanjali
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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David Tang
Chinese Businessman
Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.
Quote examples
Wilhelm Wundt
German Psychologist
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.
Quote examples
Adrianne Lenker
American Musician
Everything is fleeting and passing and impermanent in life. Relationships, people, our finite physical forms... We let go of our childhoods, we let go of different parts of our body, we lose elasticity in our skin, and we lose hair and we lose teeth.
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Jason Silva
American Director
For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
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K. D. Lang
Canadian Musician
Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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Jim Drain
American Artist
Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.
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Patanjali
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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David Tang
Chinese Businessman
Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.
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