durability

1. 1.

   permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force

   “they advertised the durability of their products”

   Synonymslastingnessenduringnessstrength

   Broaderpermanence

   Narrowertensile strengthindestructibilitycontinuitychangelessnesseverlastingness

Other forms of durability

plural

durabilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about durability

What does durability mean?

durability means "permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force".

How many syllables are in durability?

durability has 5 syllables: du-ra-bil-i-ty. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /dɚəˈbɪlɪti/.

What is another word for durability?

Close synonyms include lastingness, enduringness, strength. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is durability a common word?

durability is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with durability?

48 words rhyme with durability. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.