Definition of "impermanence"

impermanence

noun
usually uncountable, plural impermanences
1. Lack of permanence or continued duration.
2. The quality or state of being impermanent.
  Quotations
  I watch the ripples change their size / But never leave the stream of warm impermanence and / So the days float through my eyes / But still the days seem the same
  1971, “Changes”, in Hunky Dory, performed by David Bowie
3. (Buddhism) Anicca, the doctrine which asserts that all of conditioned existence is transient.