Dictionary entry

Durability

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Du′ra‐bil″i‐ty, n. [L. durabilitas.] The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness.

A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height,... its antiquity, and its durability. Blair.