Chronic
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- habitual and chronic
- habitual and permanent
- fixed and chronic
- fixed and permanent
- regular and chronic
- regular and permanent
- continuous and chronic
- continuous and permanent
- perpetual and chronic
- perpetual and permanent
- constant and chronic
- constant and permanent
- enduring and chronic
- enduring and permanent
Both words in one sentence
- The third story is revealed, at the end, to be the story of the aneurysm, and infarction that caused House's permanent leg injury, and continuing chronic pain.
Source: ...And That Little Girl Was Me -
It also undoes supposedly chronic, permanent symptoms a few times.
Source: Manga / Translucent -
For a permanent genre change, see Genre Shift; when the plot starts out as something unrelated leading up to the switch it's a Halfway Plot Switch; and when a work has a chronic case of this trope it's a Genre Roulette.
Source: Out-of-Genre Experience
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Permanent and Chronic. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/chronic/permanent
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Permanent or Chronic. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/chronic/permanent.
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