LONGEVITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does longevity mean? 

• LONGEVITY (noun)
  The noun LONGEVITY has 2 senses:

1. duration of service

2. the property of being long-lived

  Familiarity information: LONGEVITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONGEVITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Duration of service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

length of service; longevity

Context example:

had unusual longevity in the company

Hypernyms ("longevity" is a kind of...):

longness (duration as an extension)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property of being long-lived

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

longevity; seniority

Hypernyms ("longevity" is a kind of...):

oldness (the opposite of youngness)

 Context examples 

The link between diet and longevity appeared to be moderated by a pathway involving insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1).

(Protein Consumption Linked to Longevity, NIH)

Person surviving past expected longevity for a particular disease.

(Long Term Survivor, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

Since flies and mammals share some of the same molecular pathways, the work may demonstrate how the environment affects longevity in humans.

(Defending against environmental stressors may shorten lifespan, National Institutes of Health)

Mercury (by then moving forward) will be in perfect angle to Saturn, giving your agreement a spirit of longevity.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

After that adjustment, the connection between supplements and longevity disappeared.

(Healthy Diet Can't Be Replaced by Vitamins, Supplements, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The new study offers insight into its longevity and the erosion that shapes new islands.

(NASA Shows New Tongan Island Made of Tuff Stuff, Likely to Persist Years, NASA)

Exploration of the genes that induce longevity in animal models may enlighten the role of these genes in human disease and lifespan.

(Longevity Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Using high-tech sensors and automated feeding equipment, scientists developed the feeding system to help answer the difficult question of why calorie-restricted diets improve longevity.

(Eating at 'Wrong Time' Affects Body Weight, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Meal-fed and calorie-restricted mice showed improvements in overall health, as evidenced by delays in common age-related damage to the liver and other organs, and extended longevity.

(Longer daily fasting times improve health and longevity, National Institutes of Health)

If he could think himself of so much use, one gleam of day might, by possibility, penetrate into the cheerless dungeon of his remaining existence—though his longevity is, at present (to say the least of it), extremely problematical.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)