lastingness

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last·ing

(lăs′tĭng)

adj.

Continuing or remaining for a long time; enduring: a lasting peace.

last′ing·ly adv.

last′ing·ness n.

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Noun

lastingness - permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force; "they advertised the durability of their products"

durability, enduringness, strength

tensile strength - the strength of material expressed as the greatest longitudinal stress it can bear without tearing apart

indestructibility - the strength to resist destruction

permanence, permanency - the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration

persistence, continuity - the property of a continuous and connected period of time

changelessness - the property of remaining unchanged

everlastingness - the property of lasting forever

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For five cents I could buy five "cannon-balls"--big lumps of the most delicious lastingness. I could chew and worry a single one for an hour.

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He had not been inside the Museum, actually, since he and Hilda used to meet there; sometimes to set out for gay adventures at Twickenham or Richmond, sometimes to linger about the place for a while and to ponder by Lord Elgin's marbles upon the lastingness of some things, or, in the mummy room, upon the awful brevity of others.

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For albeit those Monuments of your Loves were erected up to the Cloudes, and were built never so strongly, yet now their lastingness should live but in the tongues and memories of men: But that the hand of Arte gives them here a second and more perfect being'.

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Art is a demanding to man's evanescence and alters the significance of the world, being the eventual if problematic embodiment of man's disposition to lastingness (Zinchenko, 2015), of endeavors transcending human condition.

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The lastingness of these glossy, bright, and shiny color photographs suggested the products depicted would be as immortal as the picture.

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Numerous targets are exhibited to bullying conducts that may suggest both worries regarding the lastingness of their hiring and worries regarding relevant features of the position.