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[syn: lastingness, durability, enduringness, strength]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our
minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and
its durability. --Blair.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
durability
n 1: permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or
force; "they advertised the durability of their products"
[syn: lastingness, durability, enduringness,
strength]