Definition of "impermanence" [im•per•ma•nence]

• Want of permanence or continued duration. (noun)
• The quality or state of being impermanent. (noun)

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• "But even for those who aren't particularly attached to plastic discs (or liner notes, or cover art, or lyric sheets), the impermanence is still problematic."
• "This is pain, he says in the First Noble Truth, where “this” refers to the entire phenomenal field of perception, to all worldly experience, which is characterized by impermanence and some form of suffering or duhkha duh, “bad”; kah, “hole.”"
• "It transports the viewer into that perspective of Buddhist permanent impermanence, which is perhaps a kind of definition for photography itself."