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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Long life; great duration of life.
- noun Length or duration of life or viability.
- noun Long duration or continuance, as in an occupation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Long life; unusually prolonged life or existence.
- noun Length or duration of life; term of existence: as, statistics of longevity; the average longevity of the race.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Long duration of life; length of life.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
long-lasting , especially oflife
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being long-lived
- noun duration of service
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As we said, their longevity is a testament to great management and business savvy, that results in happy customers and excellent customer service.
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No matter how much money he raises, or how many endorsements he snags, John Dingell can't shake the "age" issue; he's 84-years-old, and this time around his longevity is a liability.
Patricia Lesko: Michigan Republican Party Trashes Democrat John Dingell As A Fossil Of The 50s Patricia Lesko 2010
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No matter how much money he raises, or how many endorsements he snags, John Dingell can't shake the "age" issue; he's 84-years-old, and this time around his longevity is a liability.
Patricia Lesko: Michigan Republican Party Trashes Democrat John Dingell As A Fossil Of The 50s Patricia Lesko 2010
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As we said, their longevity is a testament to great management and business savvy, that results in happy customers and excellent customer service.
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Now, today he takes a look at what you call longevity hot spots, areas around the globe where people live remarkably long and healthy lives.
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"My view is that hardly anyone understands just how much the increase in longevity and improvement in medical care that has taken place in recent decades implies a need for larger saving."
Debating Forced Saving, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If that is true, then any policy decision which is made on the basis of "GDP or longevity?" would need to judge whether the expected increase in longevity a change (say Castro's health care) would cause would be partly reduced by the lost GDP reducing longevity.
Health Care Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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My view is that hardly anyone understands just how much the increase in longevity and improvement in medical care that has taken place in recent decades implies a need for larger saving.
Debating Forced Saving, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Lichtenberg says that his results show that 40 percent of the increase in longevity between 1986 and 2000 is accounted for by new drug discoveries.
Quack Remedy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Lichtenberg says that his results show that 40 percent of the increase in longevity between 1986 and 2000 is accounted for by new drug discoveries.
Quack Remedy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
Related Words
synonyms (88)
Words with the same meaning
- abidingness
- advanced age
- advanced years
- age
- age of retirement
- an incurable disease
- anility
- animal spirits
- animate existence
- animation
- antiquity
- being alive
- birth
- caducity
- constancy
- continuance
- debility
- decline of life
- declining years
- decrepitude
- defeat of time
- defiance of time
- diuturnity
- dotage
- durability
- durableness
- duration
- eld
- elderliness
- endurance
- existence
- feebleness
- green old age
- hale old age
- haleness
- hardiness
- having life
- heartiness
- hoary age
- immortality
- infirm old age
- infirmity
- infirmity of age
- lastingness
- life
- lifetime
- liveliness
- living
- long life
- long standing
- long-lastingness
- long-livednes
- long-livedness
- lustiness
- maintenance
- old age
- oldness
- pensionable age
- perdurability
- perennation
- permanence
- perpetuity
- persistence
- ricketiness
- ripe old age
- robustness
- ruggedness
- second childhood
- senectitude
- senility
- senior citizenship
- spriteliness
- stability
- standing
- steadfastness
- strength
- superannuation
- survival
- survivance
- the downward slope
- the golden years
- vale of years
- viability
- vigor
- vigorousness
- vitality
- vivacity
- white hairs
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