impermanent

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle French impermanent, from im- + permanent.

The necessity to counteract by impermanent sojourn the permanence of arrest. — Ulysses, James Joyce
An excited jargon filled the place which, with the air of physical disorder as if the workers were haphazardly improvising their activities,--gave the room a vivid though seemingly impermanent life. — Erik Dorn, Ben Hecht
Had Joan been holding that candle up she would have given you the impression of a statue, but Mrs. Cunningham was just the opposite--all warm and fleeting and impermanent charm, a creature depending on the varying accidents of color, even when that color was only the sooty black of her home-made dress, the candlelight on her face and the tiny reflections in her large and lustrous eyes. — A Case in Camera, Oliver Onions

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