| Concept: | [Long duration] Diuturnity. |
| Category: | 1. ABSOLUTE TIME |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
diuturnity; a long time, a length of time; an age, a century, an eternity; slowness; perpetuity; blue moon, coon's age [U.S.], dog's age., durableness, durability; persistence, endlessness, lastingness; continuance, standing; permanence (stability); survival, survivance; longevity (age); distance of time., protraction of time, prolongation of time, extension of time; delay (lateness).
-verbs
last, endure, stand, remain, abide, continue, brave a thousand years., tarry (be late); drag on, drag its slow length along, drag a lengthening chain; protract, prolong; spin out, eke out, draw out, lengthen out; temporize; gain time, make time, talk against time., outlast, outlive; survive; live to fight again.
-adjectives
durable; lasting; of long duration, of longstanding; permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing; intransient, intransitive; intransmutable, persistent; lifelong, livelong; longeval, long-lived, macrobiotic, diuturnal, evergreen, perennial; sempervirent, sempervirid; unintermitting, unremitting; perpetual., lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out, long-pending, long-winded; slow.
-adverbs
long; for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long, for many a long day; long ago (in a past time); longo intervallo., all the day long, all the year round; the livelong day, as the day is long, morning noon and night; hour after hour, day after day; for good; permanently.
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| Antonyms: | transience |
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