Hypertext Webster Gateway: "durability"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Durability \Du`ra*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. durabilitas.]
The state or quality of being durable; the power of
uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power
of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause
changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness.
A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our
minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and
its durability. --Blair.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
durability
n : permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force;
"they advertised the durability of their products" [syn:
{lastingness}, {enduringness}, {strength}]
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