Longevity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: lon=gev=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

Longevity, n. [L. longaevitas. See Longevous.].

 Long duration of life; length of life.  [1913 Webster]
"The instances of longevity are chiefly amongst the abstemious."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Longevity, n. long life.

Etymology

LL longaevitas f. L longus life + aevum age

DEVIL DICTIONARY

Longevity

n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.

THESAURUS

Longevity

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-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

ROGET THESAURUS

Longevity

Diuturnity

N diuturnity, a long time, a length of time, an age, a century, an eternity, slowness, perpetuity, blue moon, coon's age, dog's age, durableness, durability, persistence, endlessness, lastingness, continuance, standing, permanence, survival, survivance, longevity, distance of time, protraction of time, prolongation of time, extension of time, delay, durable, lasting, of long duration, of long-standing, permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing, intransient, intransitive, intransmutable, persistent, lifelong, livelong, longeval, long-lived, macrobiotic, diuturnal, evergreen, perennial, sempervirent, sempervirid, unrelenting, unintermitting, unremitting, perpetual, lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out, long-pending, long-winded, slow, long, for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long, for many a long day, long ago, longo intervallo, all the day long, all the year round, the livelong day, as the day is long, morning noon and night, hour after hour, day after day, for good, permanently.

Age

N age, oldness, old age, advanced age, golden years, senility, senescence, years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation, second childhood, second childishness, dotage, vale of years, decline of life, sear and yellow leaf, threescore years and ten, green old age, ripe age, longevity, time of life, seniority, eldership, elders, firstling, doyen, father, primogeniture, geriatrics, nostology, aged, old, elderly, geriatric, senile, matronly, anile, in years, ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime, gray, gray-headed, hoar, hoary, venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated, advanced in life, advanced in years, stricken in years, wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot, having one foot in the grave, doting, like the last of pea time, older, elder, eldest, senior, firstborn, turned of, years old, of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah, ancestral, patriarchal, gerontic, give me a staff of honor for my age, bis pueri senes, peu de gens savent elre vieux, plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus, old age is creeping on apace, slow-consuming age, the hoary head is a crown of glory, the silver livery of advised age, to grow old gracefully, to vanish in the chinks that Time has made.