PERMANENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does permanency mean? 

• PERMANENCY (noun)
  The noun PERMANENCY has 1 sense:

1. the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration

  Familiarity information: PERMANENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERMANENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

permanence; permanency

Hypernyms ("permanency" is a kind of...):

duration; length (continuance in time)

Attribute:

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

impermanent; temporary (not permanent; not lasting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "permanency"):

perpetuity; sempiternity (the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless))

durability; enduringness; lastingness; strength (permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force)

imperishability; imperishableness; imperishingness (the property of being resistant to decay)

perdurability (the property of being extremely durable)

immortality (the quality or state of being immortal)

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

First as a comfort to Fanny, then as an auxiliary, and last as her substitute, she was established at Mansfield, with every appearance of equal permanency.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)