Lastingness

//ˈlɑːstɪŋnɪs// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The property of lasting; duration, permanence. uncountable

    "The lightes, doores and staires, rather directed to the use of the guest, then to the eye of the Artificer: and yet as the one cheefly heeded, so the other not neglected; each place handsome without curiositie, and homely without lothsomnes: not so daintie as not to be trode on, nor yet slubberd up with good felowshippe: all more lasting then beautifull, but that the consideration of the exceeding lastingnesse made the eye beleeve it was exceeding beautifull."

  2. 2
    permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force wordnet

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enduringnessabidingnessageantiquitychronologyconstancy

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"The lightes, doores and staires, rather directed to the use of the guest, then to the eye of the Artificer: and yet as the one cheefly heeded, so the other not neglected; each place handsome without curiositie, and homely without lothsomnes: not so daintie as not to be trode on, nor yet slubberd up with good felowshippe: all more lasting then beautifull, but that the consideration of the exceeding lastingnesse made the eye beleeve it was exceeding beautifull."

Etymology

From lasting + -ness.

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