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longevity

UK/lɒnˈd͡ʒɛv.ɪ.ti/US/lɔnˈd͡ʒɛv.ə.ti/
nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,315 of 15,258leans written

Longevity is great length of life or of service. Human longevity, the longevity of the design, remarkable longevity.

It is used of careers and machines as readily as of people. The oldest verified human age is a hundred and twenty-two, and average longevity has risen mostly because fewer children die rather than because anybody lives much longer than before.

Definitions of longevity

  1. 1nounlongevityGreat length of life or of service.C1

    “The islanders are famous for their longevity, and many live past a hundred.”

longevity is a length.

Where it comes from

Latin longaevitas comes from longus, long, plus aevum, an age or lifetime.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *h₂ey-

  2. Latin

    longaevitās

  3. English, today

    longevity

Early 17th century, Latin longaevitās, from longaevus + -itās. The first part is related to long and this association led to the alternative pronunciation with.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

longevity in the wild

  • People believe himself as the god of wisdom and longevity had been live in the world for 1500 years.

    Jurōjin

  • The deer, a symbol of longevity, usually (but not always) accompanies him as a messenger, as do other long-lived animals such as the crane and the tortoise.

    Jurōjin

  • Li Ching-Yuen or Li Ching-Yun was a Chinese herbalist, martial artist and tactical advisor, known for his supposed extreme longevity.

    Li Ching-Yuen

  • Longevity insurance, describes the process of mitigating longevity risk.

    Longevity insurance

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.