| Main Entry: | duration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | length of action, event |
Synonyms: |
continuance, continuation, continuity, endurance, extent, period, perpetuation, persistence, prolongation, run, span, spell, stretch, term, tide, time |
| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a period of time |
Synonyms: |
aeon, blue moon, century, date, day, duration, epoch, era, generation, interim, interval, life, lifetime, millennium, span |
| Notes: | epoch applies to the beginning of a new period marked by radical changes and new developments - while era applies to the entire period; age denotes a period identified with some dominant personality or characteristic and period pertains to any portion of time |
| Main Entry: | continuation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | addition; maintenance |
Synonyms: |
assiduity, augmenting, continuance, continuing, continuity, duration, endurance, enduring, extension, furtherance, going on, increase, increasing, line, maintaining, perpetuating, perpetuation, persisting, postscript, preservation, preserving, producing, production, prolongation, prolonging, propagation, protracting, protraction, sequel, succession, supplement, sustaining, sustenance, tenacity |
Antonyms: |
cessation, end, finish, halt, stop, termination |
| Main Entry: | continuity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progression |
Synonyms: |
chain, cohesion, connection, constancy, continuance, continuousness, continuum, dovetailing, durability, duration, endurance, extension, flow, interrelationship, linking, perpetuity, persistence, prolongation, protraction, sequence, stability, stamina, succession, survival, train, uniting, unity, vitality, whole |
Antonyms: |
break, discontinuity, intermittence, interruption, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | course |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | length of action |
Synonyms: |
duration, elapsing, lapse, passage, passing, progress, sweep, term, time |
| Main Entry: | date |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | point in time; particular day or time |
Synonyms: |
age, century, course, day, duration, epoch, era, generation, hour, juncture, moment, period, quarter, reign, span, spell, stage, term, time, while, year |
| Main Entry: | endurance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | continuity, lastingness |
Synonyms: |
continuance, continuation, durability, duration, immutability, longevity, permanence, persistence, stability |
Antonyms: |
end, fleetingness |
| Main Entry: | existence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | life |
Synonyms: |
actuality, animation, being, breath, continuance, continuation, duration, endurance, entity, essence, hand one is dealt, individuality, journey, lifing, permanence, perseverance, presence, rat race, real world, reality, something, subsistence, survival, the big game, world |
Antonyms: |
death, inanimateness |
| Main Entry: | extent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | range, magnitude |
Synonyms: |
admeasurement, ambit, amount, amplitude, area, bounds, breadth, bulk, capaciousness, compass, degree, dimensions, duration, elbowroom, expanse, expansion, extension, intensity, leeway, length, limit, mass, matter, measure, neighborhood, orbit, order, period of time, play, proliferation, proportions, purview, quantity, radius, reach, scope, size, space, spaciousness, span, sphere, stretch, sweep, term, territory, time, tract, tune, vicinity, volume, wideness, width |
| Main Entry: | length |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extent of object, distance, time |
Synonyms: |
breadth, compass, continuance, diameter, dimension, duration, elongation, endlessness, expanse, expansion, extensiveness, height, interval, lastingness, lengthiness, limit, linearity, loftiness, longitude, longness, magnitude, measure, mileage, orbit, panorama, period, piece, portion, protractedness, purview, quantity, radius, range, ranginess, reach, realm, remoteness, season, section, segment, space, spaciousness, span, stretch, stride, tallness, term, unit, width, year |
Antonyms: |
height |