förgängelse

== Swedish == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Swedish forgangilse. Calque of Middle Low German vorgenknis, equivalent to förgå (“vanish”) +‎ -else === Noun === förgängelse c (religion) transience (all living things – and even matter itself – inevitably ceasing to exist), decomposition (through death), annihilation (understood as an active force or a law of nature) ==== Declension ==== ==== Related terms ==== förgänglig === References === “förgängelse”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)