permanence
pur muh nuhns
- n the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration
- This fragility leads us to watch them one very last time: to be dismayed, or to admire, it makes us wonder about the permanence of things.
- Yet there is little doubt that the free-software movement for which Stallman planted the seed has achieved a permanence through Torvalds' pragmatic work.
- Solidity and permanence read as rigidity and torpor.