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English Dictionary: durability by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
durability
n
  1. permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force; "they advertised the durability of their products"
    Synonym(s): lastingness, durability, enduringness, strength
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
  
               A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our
               minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and
               its durability.                                       --Blair.
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