"impermanent" | Definition and Related Words

Adjective

Not permanent;
Not lasting (synset 301760139)
"politics is an impermanent factor of life"; "impermanent palm cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing"

also: unstable - lacking stability or fixity or firmness

tells us about: permanence, permanency - the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration
similar 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
Existing or enduring for a limited time only (synset 301010709)
similar to: finite - bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent