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ENDURINGNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does enduringness mean?
• ENDURINGNESS (noun)
The noun ENDURINGNESS has 1 sense:
1. permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force
Familiarity information: ENDURINGNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
durability; enduringness; lastingness; strength
Context example:
they advertised the durability of their products
Hypernyms ("enduringness" is a kind of...):
permanence; permanency (the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enduringness"):
tensile strength (the strength of material expressed as the greatest longitudinal stress it can bear without tearing apart)
indestructibility (the strength to resist destruction)
continuity; persistence (the property of a continuous and connected period of time)
changelessness (the property of remaining unchanged)
everlastingness (the property of lasting forever)
Derivation:
enduring (lasting a long time)
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