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[syn: permanence, permanency]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Permanence \Per"ma*nence\, Permanency \Per"ma*nen*cy\, n. [Cf.
F. permanence.]
The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the
same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence
of institutions; the permanence of nature.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
permanence
n 1: the property of being able to exist for an indefinite
duration [syn: permanence, permanency] [ant:
impermanence, impermanency]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
111 Moby Thesaurus words for "permanence":
abidingness, age, antiquity, application, assiduity, assiduousness,
bulldog tenacity, ceaselessness, changelessness, coeternity,
concentration, constancy, continualness, continuance,
defeat of time, defiance of time, dependability, diligence,
diuturnity, dogged perseverance, doggedness, durability,
durableness, duration, endlessness, endurance, engrossment,
eternalness, eternity, ever-duringness, everlastingness, everness,
fidelity, fixedness, foreverness, immutability, incessancy,
incommutability, indefatigability, indefeasibility,
indestructibility, industriousness, industry, inertness,
infinite duration, infinity, insistence, insistency,
interminability, intransmutability, irretrievability,
irreversibility, irrevocability, lastingness, long standing,
long-lastingness, long-livedness, longevity, loyalty, maintenance,
never-endingness, obstinacy, patience, patience of Job,
perdurability, perennation, perenniality, perennialness,
permanency, perpetualness, perpetuity, perseverance, persistence,
persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plodding, plugging,
preoccupation, relentlessness, reliability, resolution, sedulity,
sedulousness, sempiternity, single-mindedness,
singleness of purpose, slogging, stability, stamina, standing,
staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, stick-to-itiveness,
stubbornness, survival, survivance, tenaciousness, tenacity,
timelessness, tirelessness, unalterability, unceasingness,
unchangeability, unchangeableness, unmodifiability,
unremittingness, unrestorableness, unreturnableness,
unswerving attention