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Impermanence is the fact that things do not stay the same forever. People, feelings, weather, even buildings — they change, and they end. In English this word often sounds thoughtful, something you meet in essays or talks about life, not in the market. Though actually, English speakers may use it quite lightly, just to mean “it isn't permanent,” without any religious weight. In Taiwan you already have a close hook: 無常. That Buddhist idea is the deep version of the same thought; English impermanence can carry that, or it can just be the plain opposite of .
無常
組成From Middle French impermanence, equivalent to im- (not) + permanence (the fact of lasting forever).
同家族的字
- permanencethe opposite: staying the same forever
- permanentthe adjective: lasting, not going away
- impermanentthe adjective for this quality
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
impermanencenoun
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Lack of permanence or continued duration.
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The quality or state of being impermanent.
- I watch the ripples change their size / But never leave the stream of warm impermanence and / So the days float through my eyes / But still the days seem the same
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BuddhismlifestylereligionAnicca, the doctrine which asserts that all of conditioned existence is transient.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。