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Lastingness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The property of lasting; duration, permanence.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The quality of lasting; durability; permanence; long continuance.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force

Word Usage

"Further to the notion of giving account of ourselves, of indexing as David Altjmed's recent show undertakes, Carreiro examines the idea of impermanence, the delicacy and to use a Lisa Robertson term "lastingness" of text, and literally of letters themselves."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

permanency permanence

Hyponym

continuity persistence everlastingness changelessness tensile strength

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

durability enduringness strength

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

byzanium reason bagginess foppishness agreeability