Consider the noun “permanence”, this is our object of study today. We will find out where he came to us from, his synonyms, antonyms, and also give an example.
Russian-French relations
The influence of the French language on Russian cannot be overestimated, because, as you know, the Russian nobility spoke better in the language of Flaubert than in the language of Pushkin. Therefore, it is quite natural that many foreign words not only entered our language, but also remained in it. True, now the object of research can be met infrequently, the noun “permanence” is, rather, an element of ironic speech, although, perhaps, someone uses it in a direct, book sense. In French, it means "permanent."
Dictionary meaning and ironic sound
The explanatory dictionary is sometimes harmful and does not directly answer the question posed, but refers to other parts of the speech. Our case is just like that. To understand that this is permanent, we need to open the page where the meaning of the adjective “permanent” is located. We will do this and see the following meaning of the object of study: "Permanent, continuously ongoing." For example: "permanent degradation."
Of course, the phrase “permanent makeup” is best known to women. You can use this example as an illustration.
In the beginning, we said that the word is often given an ironic meaning, exactly how? This is pretty easy to explain. In order for a phrase with a noun or adverb to acquire a comic sound, you just need to mix styles - high and low. Imagine a situation when one friend asks another: “Tell me, does Galina ever have her own money, or does she constantly borrow it?” She replies to her: “No, this is her usual, permanent state. Loans are evil. ” Of course, one cannot argue with the last thesis. The reader may try to come up with other examples, if you turn off the internal censor, it will turn out even funnier.
Synonyms
Sometimes the words-substitutions of the object of study are practically unnecessary, because you can pick them up yourself without any difficulty. But when the definition in question is of foreign origin, the task no longer looks so simple. However, enough preface. The list of replacements is as follows:
- always;
- normal;
- constant;
- continuous;
- chronic.
As you can see, the synonyms of the adjective are given here, but if the reader needs synonyms for the noun, then they are easy to get. True, not all items of the list turn into nouns, we will remain with only three concepts:
- commonality;
- constancy;
- continuity.
Now the reader has nothing to offend for us. We provided him with synonyms for both the adjective and the noun. Permanence is a concept that should not cause difficulties in interpretation and understanding.
Antonyms and traits
Antonyms, like synonyms, are easily amenable to semantic comprehension, because we already have the main thing for this. First, let's consider the lists, then an example with both antonyms and synonyms. The list is as follows:
- fickle;
- temporary;
- intermittent.
By the way, from the above adjectives you can make nouns that will be antonyms for the word "permanence", this is quite simple. It’s another matter that not all adjectives of the list will become full-fledged opposites of the object of study, for the concepts of “discontinuity” and “constancy” are suitable for our purposes, and from “temporality” it already blows something philosophical, which means it is not so unambiguous. But the choice is left to the reader, our business is to supply him with material.
Yes, we promised to give an example. Take the usual phrase "good man", what does it mean? Others believe that he shows the bright, better sides of the personality more often than he discovers the dark and the evil. Perhaps the last kind person does not possess at all, although it is difficult to imagine. In any case, permanent character traits are those that are constantly present in the personality. But, since nothing human is alien to our hypothetical subject, it displays extremely unacceptable qualities to people extremely rarely, which means that they can be considered temporary. They may not show themselves for years if it is not suitable for that situation. We hope that this is permanent. Everything that is present in the world all the time falls into this sphere. And, despite the bookishness of the definition, it is used quite widely when such a need arises.
Now the meaning of the word “permanent” can be included in the reader’s active vocabulary. Just a word of caution: use it carefully and competently, so that confusion does not come out.