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Permanent vs Uneffaceable - What's the difference?

permanent | uneffaceable |

As adjectives the difference between permanent and uneffaceable

is that permanent is without end, eternal while uneffaceable is impossible to efface; permanent.

As a noun permanent

is a chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.

As a verb permanent

is (dated) to perm (the hair).

permanent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Without end, eternal.
    • Nothing in this world is truly permanent .
  • Lasting for an indefinitely long time.
    • The countries are now locked in a permanent state of conflict.

    Antonyms

    * impermanent, temporary

    Derived terms

    * permanently * permanent marker * permanent wave * permanent way

    Related terms

    * permafrost * permatemp

    Noun

    (wikipedia permanent) (en noun)
  • A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.
  • * 1943 , (Raymond Chandler), The High Window , Penguin 2005, p. 8:
    • She had pewter-coloured hair set in a ruthless permanent , a hard beak and large moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones.
  • (linear algebra, combinatorics) Given an n \times n matrix a_{ij} \,, the sum over all permutations \pi \, of \prod_{i=1}^n{a_{i\pi(i)}}.

    • See also

    * determinant * ephemeral * relaxer * temporary

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dated) To perm (the hair).

    • External links

    * * * ----

    uneffaceable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Impossible to efface; permanent.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1873, author=Julian Hawthorne, title=Bressant, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=How could the events of a few hours wear such deep and uneffaceable channels in human lives? }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1901, author=William James Stillman, title=The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The emotion remains uneffaceable after more than threescore years, one of the most vivid of my life. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1904, author=Edward Dowden, title=Robert Browning, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The secondary personages in Richardson's "Clarissa" grow somewhat faint in our memories; but the figures of his heroine and of Lovelace remain not only uneffaceable but undimmed by time. }}