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durationsnounpl. of duration the period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progressfor the whole duration of the speech the bored audience fidgeted continuances, dates, life spans, lifetimes, lives, runs, standings, times spells, stretchesspans, tenures, termshitches, tours, turnshalf-lifes(or half-lives)ages, longevities uninterrupted or lasting existencescientists warning that the very duration of our civilization depends upon finding a solution to this major environmental problem abidances, continuances, continuations, continuities, durabilities, endurances, persistences, subsistences elongations, extensions, prolongationspermanencessurvivals cessations, closes, discontinuances, discontinuities, endings, ends, expirations, finishes, stoppages, surceases, terminations abridgments(or abridgements), curtailments, cutbacks, shortenings |