Meaning of DURABILITY
| Pronunciation: | | durub'ilutee
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| | Definition: | | [n] permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force; "they advertised the durability of their products" |
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| | Synonyms: | | enduringness, lastingness, strength |
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| | See Also: | | changelessness, continuity, everlastingness, indestructibility, permanence, permanency, persistence, tensile strength | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Du`ra*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. durabilitas.]
The state or quality of being durable; the power of
uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power
of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause
changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness.
A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our
minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and
its durability. --Blair.
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| | Related Terms: | | abidingness, body, ceaselessness, changelessness, coeternity, cohesiveness, concreteness, constancy, continualness, continuance, density, durableness, duration, endlessness, endurance, eternalness, eternity, ever-duringness, everlastingness, everness, firmness, fixedness, foreverness, frozenness, hardening, hardiness, hardness, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, incessancy, indestructibility, infinite duration, infinity, infrangibility, interminability, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, lastingness, leatherlikeness, long standing, mass, materiality, never-endingness, palpability, perdurability, perenniality, perennialness, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, perpetuity, persistence, persistency, ponderability, quiescence, resistance, rigidity, ropiness, sempiternity, solidity, soundness, stability, stamina, standing, stasis, steadfastness, steadiness, stiffness, stoutness, strength, stringiness, stubbornness, sturdiness, substance, substantiality, substantialness, tangibility, tenacity, timelessness, torpor, toughness, unbreakability, unbreakableness, unceasingness, unchangeability, unchangingness, viscidity, vitality |
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