longevity C1 Topic:Health & Medicine US /lɑnˈdʒevəti/ UK /lɒnˈdʒevəti/ See IPA manual Freq #21722 Meanings 1 noun a long life, or the length of time that a person or organism lives Researchers are studying whether the islanders' diet contributes to their longevity. 2 noun the ability to remain useful, successful, or in existence for a long time Careful maintenance greatly increased the longevity of the machinery. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a long life, or the length... long lifelifespan 2 noun · the ability to remain... durabilityendurancepersistence ↔ Opposites brevityshort life Word family Derived forms longevous Related forms lifespanlife expectancylong-lived Common collocations unusual longevity Adjective + noun Etymology A seventeenth-century learned borrowing from Latin longaevitas ('long life'), from longaevus ('long-lived'), combining longus ('long') with aevum ('age, lifetime'). Topics Health & Medicine External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # longevity **Type:** Word **Level:** C1 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /lɑnˈdʒevəti/ **IPA (UK):** /lɒnˈdʒevəti/ **Frequency rank:** 21722 ## Meanings 1. a long life, or the length of time that a person or organism lives 2. the ability to remain useful, successful, or in existence for a long time ## Examples - Researchers are studying whether the islanders' diet contributes to their longevity. - Careful maintenance greatly increased the longevity of the machinery. ## Synonyms - long life - durability - endurance - persistence ## Antonyms - brevity - short life ## Derived Forms - longevous ## Related Forms - lifespan - life expectancy - long-lived ## Etymology A seventeenth-century learned borrowing from Latin longaevitas ('long life'), from longaevus ('long-lived'), combining longus ('long') with aevum ('age, lifetime'). ## Topics - Health & Medicine markdown