PERPETUITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perpetuity mean? 

• PERPETUITY (noun)
  The noun PERPETUITY has 1 sense:

1. the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless)

  Familiarity information: PERPETUITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERPETUITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

perpetuity; sempiternity

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

permanence; permanency (the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration)

Derivation:

perpetual (uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing)

perpetual (continuing forever or indefinitely)

 Context examples 

The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Here, established in perpetuity, is the poor Beauty, a widow with a little girl; here, at dinner on Sophy's birthday, are the three married girls with their three husbands, and one of the husband's brothers, and another husband's cousin, and another husband's sister, who appears to me to be engaged to the cousin.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That the system of living contrived by me, was unreasonable and unjust; because it supposed a perpetuity of youth, health, and vigour, which no man could be so foolish to hope, however extravagant he may be in his wishes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)