ENDURING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enduring mean? 

• ENDURING (adjective)
  The adjective ENDURING has 2 senses:

1. lasting a long time

2. patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble

  Familiarity information: ENDURING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENDURING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lasting a long time

Synonyms:

abiding; enduring; imperishable

Context example:

imperishable truths

Similar:

lasting; permanent (continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place)

Derivation:

enduringness (permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble

Synonyms:

enduring; long-suffering

Context example:

a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife

Similar:

patient (enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance)

 Context examples 

A disorder characterized by an enduring pattern of unstable self-image and mood together with volatile interpersonal relationships, self-damaging impulsivity, recurrent suicidal threats or gestures and/or self-mutilating behavior.

(Borderline personality disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

A rotation rate of 90 hours is much slower than what is predicted for HD 80606b, puzzling astronomers, and adding to the enduring mystique of hot Jupiters.

(Investigating the Mystery of Migrating 'Hot Jupiters', NASA)

"Some day I'll beat the face off of him," was the way he often consoled himself for enduring the man's existence.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The term comprises individuals belonging to a large number of tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of them still enduring as political communities.

(Native American, NCI Thesaurus)

The disturbance is relatively enduring or recurrent without treatment.

(Neurosis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Six years had passed since then: I was a wreck, but nought had changed in those savage and enduring scenes.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A disorder characterized by an enduring pattern of behavior based on the pervasive belief that the motives of others are malevolent and that they should not be trusted.

(Paranoid Personality Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Then I spoke frankly, telling him what I was enduring from Thomas Mugridge because of the three days of favouritism which had been shown me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

An enduring mystery regarding the origin of life is how biology could have arisen from non-biological chemical processes.

(Cyanide Compounds Discovered in Meteorites May Hold Clues to the Origin of Life, NASA)

Such a penance as I have been enduring, while you were sitting here so composed and so happy!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)