durability

English

Etymology

From Middle English durabilite, from Old French durabilité, from Latin dūrābilitās (“durability”). Corresponding to durable +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /dəɹəˈbɪləti/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdʲʊɹəbɪləti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

durability (countable and uncountable, plural durabilities)

1. Permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force.
   • 2025 January 3, Kai Burkhardt, “The best rain jackets of 2025, tried and tested”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     We broke up our tests into three categories — performance, durability and versatility — so we could compare the different features of each jacket against the others directly.

Derived terms

• biodurability
• nondurability

Translations

Permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force

• Armenian: տոկունություն (hy) (tokunutʻyun), ամրություն (hy) (amrutʻyun), պնդություն (hy) (pndutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: трайност (bg) f (trajnost)
• Catalan: durabilitat f
• Czech: životnost (cs) f, trvanlivost (cs) f, výdrž f (of batteries)
• Danish: holdbarhed c, slidstyrke c, varighed c
• Dutch: duurzaamheid (nl)
• Estonian: vastupidavus, kestvus
• Finnish: kesto (fi), kestävyys (fi)
• French: durabilité (fr) f, résistance (fr) f
• German: Haltbarkeit (de) f
• Hindi: टिकाउपन m (ṭikāupan)
• Irish: buanfas m, buaine f, teilgean m
• Italian: durabilità (it) f
• Latin: firmitudo f, firmitas f, dūrābilitās f
• Lithuanian: tvermė f, patvarumas m
• Malay: ketahanan (ms), keawetan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: holdbarhet m or f, bestandighet m or f

• Polish: żywotność (pl), czas życia (maszyny)
• Portuguese: durabilidade (pt) f
• Russian: долгове́чность (ru) f (dolgovéčnostʹ), живу́честь (ru) f (živúčestʹ), сто́йкость (ru) f (stójkostʹ), дли́тельность (ru) f (dlítelʹnostʹ)
• Spanish: durabilidad f
• Swedish: hållbarhet (sv) c, varighet c, beständighet (sv) c, slitstyrka c
• Telugu: మన్నిక (te) (mannika)
• Turkish: dayanıklılık (tr)
• Ukrainian: довгові́чність f (dovhovíčnistʹ), сті́йкість f (stíjkistʹ)