diuturnity means long duration; lastingness. It carries an Arena rating of 1580, earned across 51 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, diuturnity ranks #783 of 17,128 for Most Ponderous Words, #858 of 17,124 for Most Sublime Words, #1,999 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words, #5,920 of 17,132 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound.
Why “diuturnity” is a great word
DIUTURNITY — [Noun] The quality of lasting for a very long duration. From Latin diuturnitatem, accusative of diuturnitas ("long duration"), from diuturnus ("long-lasting") + -itas (noun-forming suffix). Unlike "ephemerality," which measures existence in moments, or "permanence," which suggests a state beyond time's reach, diuturnity is the deep, slow current of the merely long-lived. It is the oak that outlives generations of gardeners, the bronze statue whose patina has deepened to a uniform green, and the patient yellowing of paper in a forgotten archive—a testament not to eternity, but to the immense and heavy labor of duration itself.
Etymology
From Latin diuturnitatem.
noun
- Long duration; lastingness.e.g.“What Prince can promise such diuturnity unto his Reliques […] Diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation” — 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne Buriall, Anchor, published 1967, pages 279, 282:
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