anicca
noun
anicca is a noun meaning “Impermanence, the doctrine claiming that all of conditioned existence, without exception, is transient. One of the three marks of existence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-I-C-C-A, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does anicca mean?
noun
- 1
Impermanence, the doctrine claiming that all of conditioned existence, without exception, is transient. One of the three marks of existence.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of anicca
- anitya
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anicca?
Anicca appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Anicca in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense impermanence:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | impermanencia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does anicca come from?
Transliteration of Pali anicca.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).