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permanence

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noun

the condition or quality of being permanent; perpetual or continued existence.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Medieval Latin permanentia. See permanent, -ence

Related forms

non·per·ma·nence, noun

Can be confused: permanence, permanency.

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It has to rise and fall and wax and wane to maintain its permanence.

But the job had political support and even a degree of permanence.

Stone-not sun-dried mud brick-gave permanence to these ancient monuments.

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It has to rise and fall and wax and wane to maintain its permanence.

But the job had political support and even a degree of permanence.

Stone-not sun-dried mud brick-gave permanence to these ancient monuments.

In the eyes of man they represent something near permanence.

And a low wall of dry-stacked, moss-covered stone gives a feeling of permanence.

Sometimes this transience was sold to us as permanence.

They had taken up their residence there with a view to permanence.

What would happen is that effective power would shift, automatically, to those with some permanence.

Unlike the boat gypsies, the residents of the stilt houses enjoy a semi permanence.

Its permanence also requires greater care be taken about the form and content.

Keep in mind that this is an annual, so plant it as you'd plant a bed of petunias or marigolds, with no thought to permanence.

It's cheaper and faster to do for those who own their own land, than to import a pre-fab that won't provide more permanence.

They question traditional concepts of solid structure, permanence and arty materials meant to resist the encroachments of nature.

The spreading equity culture has an air of permanence that hard statistics cannot convey.

Stone-not sun-dried mud brick-gave permanence to these monuments, the last of the world's ancient wonders.

Kurzweil says the vision of permanence is incorrect, anyway.

Decorate as though it were yours, to get a sense of permanence in your home.

The depth and permanence of the schism will only be revealed with time.

With its mighty columns and thick walls, now half-buried in soil and debris, the mosque expresses power and permanence.

Books not only give knowledge shape, they give knowledge permanence.

With its columns and wings, the house conveys permanence.

The permanence of its inks relies in part on dyes that react with the surface of the paper's cellulose fibres.

National parks have an aura of sacred permanence as a place that society has chosen to set aside and protect forevermore.

The situation is ripening for a change in the ruler, but the permanence of the old regime.

Freedom is the enemy of possession and possession is permanence.

From a purist's standpoint, a tattoo's permanence reflects the eternity of its.

The changes bring a sense of permanence to the programming.

It's the permanence of the transition that matters.

The dunes show a remarkable permanence of form, though, which geologists attribute to opposing winds.

As permanence becomes a possibility, pride in transience starts to look questionable.

It was more comfortable with metamorphosis and change than with permanence.

It has something to tell us about the permanence of racist ideas through the centuries.

Writing, after all, gave poetry its visibility and permanence.

In both cathedrals and crystals there's a sense of permanence and tranquillity that transcends the buzz of surface.

Like them, he found in nature a dynamic relationship between permanence and change.

Regret about the permanence of skin illustration is rising.

Stevenson does throughout, a sense of permanence in an impermanent world.

Separate your art from permanence and money and you will be free.

The audience is left to contemplate the permanence and elusiveness of change.

Malcolm's awareness of its permanence became a creative obstacle.

The system has a look of permanence yet it is easy to take down and pack up.

Retro designs can also give a sense of permanence to disposable devices.

It gives a home character and permanence that today's materials don't.

The memorial itself adds to this impression of permanence.

He is not a creature of places or monuments or even of permanence.

Edwards retains a profound sense of the fragility of happiness and the permanence of pain.

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World English Dictionary

permanence (ˈpɜːmənəns)

—n
	the state or quality of being permanent

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