permanence

from 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}]
    
from 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]
    
from 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

    

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