| NOUN | act | continuance, continuation | the act of continuing an activity without interruption |
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| time | continuance, duration | the period of time during which something continues | |
| time | continuance, duration | the property of enduring or continuing in time |
| Sounds | kahntih'nyuwahns | |
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| Rhymes | abeyance ... virulence: 273 rhymes with ahns... | |
| Meaning | The act of continuing an activity without interruption. | |
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| Synonym | continuation | |
| Narrower | abidance | The act of abiding (enduring without yielding) |
| perseverance, persistence, perseveration | The act of persisting or persevering | |
| prolongation, protraction, perpetuation, lengthening | The act of prolonging something | |
| pursuance, prosecution | The continuance of something begun with a view to its completion | |
| repetition, repeating | The act of doing or performing again | |
| survival | Something that survives | |
| Broader | activity | Any specific behavior |
| Opposite | discontinuance, discontinuation | The act of discontinuing / discontinuing or breaking off |
| Spanish | continuación | |
| Catalan | continuació | |
| Verbs | continue | continue a certain state, condition, or activity |
| Meaning | The period of time during which something continues. | |
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| Synonym | duration | |
| Narrower | clocking | The time taken to traverse a measured course |
| longueur | A period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art) | |
| residence time | The period of time spent in a particular place | |
| rule | The duration of a monarch's or government's power | |
| span | The complete duration of something | |
| stretch, stint | An unbroken period of time during which you do something | |
| time scale | An arrangement of events used as a measure of duration | |
| value, time value, note value | (music) the relative duration of a musical note | |
| Broader | time period, period of time, period | An amount of time |
| Spanish | continuación, continuidad, duración, permanencia, persistencia | |
| Catalan | continuïtat, duració, permanència, persistència | |
| Verbs | continue | exist over a prolonged period of time |
| Meaning | The property of enduring or continuing in time. | |
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| Synonym | duration | |
| Broader | time | The continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past |
| Spanish | continuidad, duración, permanencia, persistencia | |
| Catalan | continuïtat, duració, durada, permanència | |
| Adjectives | continuant | of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as 'f', 's', 'z', or 'th' in both 'thin' and 'then') |
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