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Writers use “impermanent” to evoke the fleeting, ever-changing nature of existence and beauty. In many works, the term functions as a synonym for transient or temporary, highlighting how nothing in life—be it emotions, structures, or relationships—remains fixed forever ([1], [2], [3]). Philosophical and poetic texts further explore this idea by contrasting the temporary with the enduring, often invoking impermanence to underscore human vulnerability in a world where all things decay or transform ([4], [5], [6]). Whether describing the evanescent glow of a sunset, the delicate impermanence of art, or the transient nature of social and personal bonds, literature consistently channels a bittersweet awareness of life’s ever-fleeting moments ([7], [8], [9]).
  1. transient , a. fleeting , transitory, temporary , impermanent.
    — from Putnam's Word Book A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of an Exact and Varied Vocabulary by Louis A. (Louis Andrew) Flemming
  2. By its very nature it is transitory, impermanent.
    — from The Colonists by Raymond F. Jones
  3. Antonyms : impermanent, evanescent, ephemeral, transient .
    — from Putnam's Word Book A Practical Aid in Expressing Ideas Through the Use of an Exact and Varied Vocabulary by Louis A. (Louis Andrew) Flemming
  4. A. (1) True discrimination of permanent and impermanent things.
    — from Five Years of Theosophy
  5. Q. What is the right discrimination of permanent and impermanent things?
    — from Five Years of Theosophy
  6. Gautama Buddha taught that everything corporeal is material and therefore impermanent.
    — from The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
  7. Our joint existence is impermanent: Sadly together we shall slip away.
    — from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems
  8. Impermanent, but beautiful to me, they lit a fair horizon.
    — from Caught by the Turks by Francis Yeats-Brown
  9. Beneath the daring rays of present-day research all things are being proved impermanent, all found verging over the infinite abyss.
    — from Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits;A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. (Clark Smith) Beardslee

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