Definition of permanence
: the quality or state of being permanent : durability
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No wonder Trump, a master of television, has no permanence of thought.
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Such monuments to terrible finality must always be distrusted, for a racist country will take any object of permanence and bend it to its ends.
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Although no contract talks have yet been held between the two Premier League clubs, Shaw's unhappy permanence at Manchester United is thought to be decisive in determining his departure.
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Within the identity-politics world, there is only the permanence of debt.
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His piece deploys a bright and contrasting color palette that evokes the tensions between permanence and transience intrinsic to street art.
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Belief in the city's permanence only came with Cold War construction and the discovery of oil on the Kenai Peninsula in the 1950s.
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With maximum land leases being 99 years long, there is a feeling of permanence involved with each parcel of land signed over.
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But there's just more permanence and weight to the design.
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First Known Use of permanence
15th century
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: the quality or state of lasting forever or for a long time
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