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Simultaneously vs Permanently - What's the difference?

simultaneously | permanently |

As adverbs the difference between simultaneously and permanently

is that simultaneously is occurring at the same time while permanently is in a permanent manner; lastingly.

simultaneously

English

Adverb

(-)
  • Occurring at the same time.
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  • The hens woke up squawking with terror because they had all dreamed simultaneously of hearing a gun go off in the distance.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}

    permanently

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a permanent manner; lastingly.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.}}
  • Forever.
  • Derived terms

    * permafrozen