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Definition of Longevity
1. Noun. Duration of service. "Had unusual longevity in the company"
2. Noun. The property of being long-lived.
Definition of Longevity
1. n. Long duration of life; length of life.
Definition of Longevity
1. Noun. The quality of being long-lasting, especially of life ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Longevity
1. [n -TIES]
Medical Definition of Longevity
1. Lifespan. (With increasing longevity, women will soon be postmenopausal for one third of their lives). (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Longevity
Literary usage of Longevity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1870)
"His facts clearly demonstrated that longevity beyond 70 could not be ... As a
rule persons with a pendent epiglottis do not attain a longevity bevond 70. ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"He has suggested further that if the normal specific longevity were attained by
human beings, old and not degenerate individuals would lose the instinct for ..."
3. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"Many of the instances of longevity were in people of Scotch origin who sub.sisted all
... There arc some very interesting instances of successive longevity. ..."
4. Our Italy by Charles Dudley Warner (1891)
"CHAPTER V. HEALTH AND longevity. IN regard to the effect of climate upon health
and longevity, Dr. Remondino quotes old Hufeland that "uniformity in the ..."
5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1846)
"THE INFLUENCE OP CLIMATE ON longevity : WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO LIFE INSURANCE.* To
determine the influence of climate on longevity, requires a collection ..."
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