Bicycles are tools for urban sustainability.
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Sustainability
/səˌsteɪnəˈbɪləti/
Synonyms for "sustainability" (17 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (4)
Noun(4 words)
Strong matches (5)
Adjective(2 words)
ecological balancelong term viability
Noun(3 words)
Related words (8)
Noun(7 words)
long-term viabilityresource efficiencyresponsible usestewardshipsupportabilitysustainability conceptviability
Verb(1 words)
preserve resources
Related word relations
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More general
6 entriesMore specific
10 entriesenvironmental policygreen designpollution reductionreforestationrenewable energy adoptionresource conservationsustainable agriculturesustainable developmenturban planningwater conservation
Collocations
6 entrieseconomic sustainabilityenvironmental sustainabilityrenewable energy useresource conservationsocial sustainabilitysustainable development
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
5 entriesTranslations
28 translations across 21 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- усто́йчивост noun (ability to sustain something)
Catalan
1 entries- sostenibilitat noun (ability to sustain something)
Danish
2 entries- bæredygtighed noun (ability to sustain something)
- holdbarhed noun (ability to sustain something)
Dutch
1 entries- houdbaarheid noun (ability to sustain something)
Esperanto
1 entries- daŭripovo noun (ability to sustain something)
French
1 entries- soutenabilité noun (ability to sustain something)
Galician
1 entries- sustentabilidade noun (ability to sustain something)
Georgian
1 entries- მდგრადობა noun (ability to sustain something)
German
1 entries- Zukunftsfähigkeit noun (ability to sustain something)
Greek
1 entries- αειφορία noun (ability to sustain something)
Hungarian
1 entries- fenntarthatóság noun (ability to sustain something)
Indonesian
3 entries- keberlangsungan noun (ability to sustain something)
- keberlanjutan noun (ability to sustain something)
- kelestarian noun (ability to sustain something)
Italian
1 entries- sostenibilità noun (ability to sustain something)
Malay
1 entries- kemampanan noun (ability to sustain something)
Māori
1 entries- toitūtanga noun (ability to sustain something)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bærekraft noun (ability to sustain something)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- berekraft noun (ability to sustain something)
Portuguese
1 entries- sustentabilidade noun (ability to sustain something)
Russian
1 entries- усто́йчивость noun (ability to sustain something)
Spanish
2 entries- sostenibilidad noun (ability to sustain something)
- sustentabilidad noun (ability to sustain something)
Swedish
4 entries- bärkraft noun (ability to sustain something)
- hållbarhet noun (ability to sustain something)
- långsiktighet noun (ability to sustain something)
- uthållighet noun (ability to sustain something)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
The U.S. Pacific Islands region includes more than 2,000 islands spanning millions of square miles of ocean. Rising air and ocean temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, changing frequencies and intensities of storms and drought, decreasing streamflows, rising sea levels, and changing ocean chemistry will threaten the sustainability of globally important and diverse ecosystems as well as local communities, livelihoods, and cultures.
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"A lot of chefs these days, I think, are more concerned with sustainability" and have always been concerned with freshness, she said.
Source: tatoeba (7769088)
What started as an interest in sustainability has become a rooftop oasis, complete with tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots and herbs.
Source: tatoeba (7769110)
Showing 4 of 14 available sentences.