impermanent
Adjective
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also: unstable - lacking stability or fixity or firmnesstells us about: permanence, permanency - the property of being able to exist for an indefinite durationsimilar to:
- acting - serving temporarily especially as a substitute
- ephemeral, fugacious, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory - lasting a very short time
- episodic - limited in duration to a single episode
- evanescent - tending to vanish like vapor
- fly-by-night - ephemeral
- improvised, jury-rigged, makeshift - done or made using whatever is available
- interim - serving during an intermediate interval of time
- pro tem, pro tempore - for the time being
- shipboard - casual or ephemeral as if taking place on board a ship
- temporal - not eternal
- terminable - capable of being terminated after a designated time
- working - adopted as a temporary basis for further work
same as: temporary -
similar to: finite - bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent
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