Permanence is the quality of lasting for good. A sense of permanence, the permanence of the change, no permanence.
In child development, object permanence is the understanding that a thing still exists when it cannot be seen, which is why peekaboo stops being astonishing at about eight months. Elsewhere the word is about buildings and arrangements meant to outlast their makers.
1nounpermanenceThe quality of lasting for good.
“After years of moving from city to city, she longed for some permanence in her life.”
permanence is a quality.
Latin permanentia comes from permanere, to remain, from per plus manere, to stay.
Latin
permaneō — to remain; last
Medieval Latin
permanentia
Middle French
permanence
Middle English
permanence
English, today
permanence
From Middle English permanence, permanens, from Middle French permanence, from Medieval Latin permanentia, from Latin permaneō (“to remain; last”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA