continuance | Definition of continuance

Synonyms and Antonyms of continuance

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

the feud between the two families was bitter and of long continuance

Synonyms of continuance

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

Words Related to continuance

span, tenure, term

hitch, tour, turn

2 uninterrupted or lasting existence

the continuance of hunger in the world despite some valiant efforts to solve the problem

Synonyms of continuance

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

Words Related to continuance

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

enduringness, permanence

Near Antonyms of continuance

abridgment (or abridgement), curtailment, cutback, shortening

Antonyms of continuance

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