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duration

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of duration

1 the period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progress

for the whole duration of the speech the bored audience fidgeted

Synonyms of duration

continuance, date, life, life span, lifetime, run, standing, time

Words Related to duration

span, tenure, term

hitch, tour, turn

2 uninterrupted or lasting existence

scientists warning that the very duration of our civilization depends upon finding a solution to this major environmental problem

Synonyms of duration

abidance, ceaselessness, continuance, continuation, continuity, continuousness, durability, endurance, persistence, subsistence

Words Related to duration

drawing out, elongation, extension, lengthening, prolongation, prolonging, stretching

enduringness, permanence

Near Antonyms of duration

abridgment (or abridgement), curtailment, cutback, shortening

Antonyms of duration

cessation, close, discontinuance, discontinuity, end, ending, expiration, finish, stoppage, surcease, termination

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