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| Main Entry: | continuance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | duration |
| Synonyms: | constancy, continuation, endurance, extension, guts*, longevity, period, permanence, run, survival, term, vitality, perpetuation, protraction |
| Antonyms: | arrest, end, ending, finish, hindrance, obstruction, stop, stoppage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | continuance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
abiding, accrescent, chronic, consecutive, constant, continued, continuing, continuous, curtate, diuturnal, entire, evergreen, fugacious, gradual, immediate, in a line, inconvertible, intransient, intransitive, intransmutable, lasting, lifelong, linear, lingering, livelong, long-lived, long-pending, long-standing, long-winded, longeval, longevous, macrobian, macrobiotic, nisi, perdurable, perennial, permanent, perpetual, progressive, prolonged, protracted, serial, slow, spun out, successive, supernaculum, sustained, unbroken, undying, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unremitting, unreversed, unrevoked, unshifting, unstopped, unvaried, unvarying
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| Main Entry: | continuation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | addition; maintenance |
| Synonyms: | continuance, continuing, continuity, duration, endurance, enduring, extension, furtherance, increase, increasing, line, postscript, preservation, producing, production, propagation, sequel, succession, supplement, sustenance, tenacity, assiduity, augmenting, going on, maintaining, perpetuating, perpetuation, persisting, preserving, prolongation, prolonging, protracting, protraction, sustaining |
| Antonyms: | cessation, end, finish, halt, stop, termination |
| Main Entry: | continuity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | progression |
| Synonyms: | chain, cohesion, connection, constancy, continuance, durability, duration, endurance, extension, flow, linking, perpetuity, persistence, sequence, stability, stamina, succession, survival, train, unity, vitality, whole, continuousness, continuum, dovetailing, interrelationship, prolongation, protraction, uniting |
| Antonyms: | break, interruption, stoppage, discontinuity, intermittence |
| Main Entry: | duration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | length of action, event |
| Synonyms: | continuance, continuation, continuity, endurance, extent, period, persistence, run, span, spell, stretch, term, tide, time, perpetuation, prolongation |
| Main Entry: | existence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | life |
| Synonyms: | actuality, animation, being, breath, continuance, continuation, duration, endurance, entity, essence, individuality, journey, permanence, perseverance, presence, rat race*, real world*, reality, something, subsistence, survival, world, hand one is dealt, lifing, the big game |
| Antonyms: | death, inanimateness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | issue, abundance |
| Synonyms: | breeze, continuance, continuation, continuity, course, current, deluge, discharge, draft, draw, dribble, drift, ebb, effusion, electricity, emanation, flood, flux, gush, juice, movement, outflow, outpouring, plenty, plethora, progress, progression, river, run, sequence, series, spate, spout, spurt, stream, succession, tide, train, wind, leakage, oozing |
| Antonyms: | trickle |
| Main Entry: | length |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extent of object, distance, time |
| Synonyms: | breadth, compass, continuance, diameter, dimension, duration, expanse, expansion, height, interval, limit, magnitude, measure, mileage, orbit, panorama, period, piece, portion, quantity, radius, range, reach, realm, season, section, segment, space, span, stretch, stride, term, unit, width, elongation, endlessness, extensiveness, lastingness, lengthiness, linearity, loftiness, longitude, longness, protractedness, purview, ranginess, remoteness, spaciousness, tallness, year |
| Antonyms: | height |
| Main Entry: | lifetime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | span of animate being's existence |
| Synonyms: | all one's born days, career, continuance, course, cradle to grave, days, endurance, existence, life, life span, natural life, period, time |
| Main Entry: | maintenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perpetuation, support; sustenance |
| Synonyms: | alimony, allowance, bacon*, bread, bread and butter, care, conservation, continuance, continuation, food, keep, keeping, livelihood, living, nurture, preservation, provision, resources, salt*, subsistence, supply, upkeep, wherewithal, aliment, alimentation, carrying, prolongation, repairs, retainment, sustaining, sustainment, sustention |
| Antonyms: | desertion, ignorance, neglect, forsaking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | monotony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boredom; sameness |
| Synonyms: | continuance, continuity, dryness, dullness, ennui, evenness, humdrum*, likeness, oneness, routine, similarity, tediousness, tedium, uniformity, colorlessness, dreariness, equability, flatness, identicalness, invariability, levelness, monotone, monotonousness, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, same old thing, tiresomeness, unchangeableness, wearisomeness |
| Antonyms: | change, color, excitement, liveliness, versatility, variability |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perseverance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | diligence, hard work |
| Synonyms: | backbone*, constancy, continuance, cool, dedication, determination, doggedness, drive, endurance, grit*, guts*, moxie*, persistence, pluck*, resolution, spunk, stamina, tenacity, immovability, indefatigability, pertinacity, prolonging, purposefulness, pursuance, sedulity, steadfastness, stick-to-itiveness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, idleness, indolence, laziness, lethargy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sequence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | series, order |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, array, chain, classification, concatenation, continuance, continuity, course, cycle, disposition, distribution, flow, graduation, pecking order*, perpetuity, placement, procession, progression, row, run, sequel, streak, string, succession, track, train, catenation, consecution, consecutiveness, continuousness, grouping, ordering, skein, subsequence, successiveness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | time |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temporal length of event or entity's existence, period |
| Synonyms: | age, allotment, bit, bout, clock, continuance, date, day, duration, epoch, era, eternity, extent, future, generation, go*, infinity, instance, instant, interval, juncture, life, life span, lifetime, moment, occasion, pace, past, point, present, season, second, shift, space, span, spell, stage, stint, stretch, tempo, term, tide, tour, turn, while, chronology, hour, lastingness, many a moon, month, week, year |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perpetuity |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | state of being perpetual |
| Synonyms: | constancy, continuance, continuity, endurance |
| Main Entry: | survival |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | continuation |
| Synonyms: | continuance, continuity, durability, endurance |
| Main Entry: | endurance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | continuity, lastingness |
| Synonyms: | continuance, continuation, durability, duration, longevity, permanence, persistence, stability, immutability |
| Antonyms: | end, fleetingness |
| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | existence, duration |
| Synonyms: | being, career, continuance, course, cycle, endurance, epoch, era, expectancy, extent, generation, history, length, life span, lifetime, longevity, orbit, period, pilgrimage, record, season, span, survival, time, days |
| Main Entry: | stretch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of time |
| Synonyms: | bit, continuance, duration, extent, length, run, space, span, spell, stint, term, time, while |
| Main Entry: | credit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deferred payment arrangement; assets |
| Synonyms: | balance, bond, continuance, debenture, extension, installment plan, lien, loan, mortgage, plastic*, respite, stock, tab, trust, wealth, capital outlay, installment buying, on account, on the arm, on the cuff, securities, surplus cash |
| Antonyms: | cash |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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