English > impermanent: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | not permanent; not lasting / lasting / lasting. |
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| Examples | - "politics is an impermanent factor of life"- James Thurber
- "impermanent palm cottages"
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| Synonym | temporary |
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| Attribute of | permanence, permanency | The property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration |
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| Narrower | acting | Serving temporarily especially as a substitute |
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| ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious | Lasting a very short time |
| episodic | Limited in duration to a single episode |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| fly-by-night | Ephemeral |
| improvised, jury-rigged, makeshift | Done or made using whatever is available |
| interim | Serving during an intermediate interval of time |
| pro tem, pro tempore | for the time being |
| shipboard | Casual or ephemeral as if taking place on board a ship |
| temporal | not eternal |
| terminable | Capable of being terminated after a designated time |
| working | Adopted as a temporary basis for further work |
| See also | unstable | lacking stability or fixity / fixity or firmness |
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| Opposite | permanent, lasting | continuing or enduring without marked change in status / status or condition or place |
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| Spanish | impermanente, temporal |
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| Catalan | temporal |
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| Nouns | impermanence, impermanency | the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations |
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