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PERMANENCE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does permanence mean?

• PERMANENCE (noun)
The noun PERMANENCE has 1 sense:

1. the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration

Familiarity information: PERMANENCE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PERMANENCE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

permanence; permanency

Hypernyms ("permanence" is a kind of...):

duration; length (continuance in time)

Attribute:

lasting; permanent (continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place)

impermanent; temporary (not permanent; not lasting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "permanence"):

perpetuity; sempiternity (the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless))

durability; enduringness; lastingness; strength (permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force)

imperishability; imperishableness; imperishingness (the property of being resistant to decay)

perdurability (the property of being extremely durable)

immortality (the quality or state of being immortal)

Antonym:

impermanence (the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations)

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