inveteracy

inveteracy
Synonyms and related words:
abidingness, aboriginality, accustomedness, age, ancien regime, ancientness, antiquity, atavism, changelessness, cobwebs of antiquity, commonness, confirmation, confirmedness, constancy, customariness, deep-rootedness, deep-seatedness, durability, durableness, duration, dust of ages, eld, elderliness, eldership, embedment, endurance, entrenchment, establishment, firmness, fixation, fixedness, fixity, fixture, frozenness, great age, habitualness, hardening, hoary age, hoary eld, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, implantation, infixion, invariability, invariableness, inveterateness, lastingness, long standing, old age, old order, old style, oldness, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, persistence, persistency, prevalence, primitiveness, primogeniture, primordialism, primordiality, quiescence, rigidity, senility, seniority, settledness, solidity, stability, stabilization, standing, stasis, steadfastness, torpor, unchangeability, unchangingness, venerableness, wontedness

Moby Thesaurus. . 1996.

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  • Inveteracy — In*vet er*a*cy, n. [From {Inveterate}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or deep rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; usually in a bad sense; …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • inveteracy — index behavior, constant, habituation Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • inveteracy — 1690s, from INVETERATE (Cf. inveterate) + CY (Cf. cy) …   Etymology dictionary

  • inveteracy — /in vet euhr euh see/, n. the quality or state of being inveterate or deeply ingrained: the inveteracy of people s prejudices. [1710 20; INVETER(ATE) + ACY] * * * …   Universalium

  • inveteracy — /ɪnˈvɛtərəsi/ (say in vetuhruhsee) noun the state of being inveterate: the inveteracy of people s prejudices …  

  • inveteracy — inveterate ► ADJECTIVE 1) having a long standing and firmly established habit or activity: an inveterate gambler. 2) (of a feeling or habit) firmly established. DERIVATIVES inveteracy noun inveterately adverb. ORIGIN Latin inveteratus made old …   English terms dictionary

  • inveteracy — noun Etymology: inveterate + cy Date: circa 1719 the quality or state of being obstinate or persistent ; tenacity …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • inveteracy — noun The state of being inveterate; long continuance; firmness or deep rooted persistence …   Wiktionary

  • inveteracy — in·vet·er·a·cy || ɪn vetÉ™rÉ™sɪ n. quality of being inveterate, quality of being deeply ingrained …   English contemporary dictionary

  • inveteracy — n. Inveterateness, obstinacy, chronic state …   New dictionary of synonyms

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