durability
from
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]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "durability":
abidingness, body, ceaselessness, changelessness, coeternity,
cohesiveness, concreteness, constancy, continualness, continuance,
density, durableness, duration, endlessness, endurance,
eternalness, eternity, ever-duringness, everlastingness, everness,
firmness, fixedness, foreverness, frozenness, hardening, hardiness,
hardness, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability,
incessancy, indestructibility, infinite duration, infinity,
infrangibility, interminability, invariability, invariableness,
inveteracy, lastingness, leatherlikeness, long standing, mass,
materiality, never-endingness, palpability, perdurability,
perenniality, perennialness, permanence, permanency, perpetualness,
perpetuity, persistence, persistency, ponderability, quiescence,
resistance, rigidity, ropiness, sempiternity, solidity, soundness,
stability, stamina, standing, stasis, steadfastness, steadiness,
stiffness, stoutness, strength, stringiness, stubbornness,
sturdiness, substance, substantiality, substantialness,
tangibility, tenacity, timelessness, torpor, toughness,
unbreakability, unbreakableness, unceasingness, unchangeability,
unchangingness, viscidity, vitality
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