Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An enduring or continuing through the whole year without ceasing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The quality of being perennial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
perennial .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word perennity.
Examples
-
Giving up perennity and emerging oneself in time, means that one is condemned to the fads of fashion.
-
His greatest mistake was to not ensure the perennity of his plan.
-
But how do you attract talent to NASA if they cannot figure a way to come up with a plan and ensure its perennity, e.g. Constellation.
-
“With this fiction,” one critic wrote, “Clarice Lispector awakens the literature currently being produced in Brazil from a depressing and degrading lethargy and elevates it to a level of universal perennity and perfection.”
-
Giving up perennity and emerging oneself in time, means that one is condemned to the fads of fashion.
-
Giving up perennity and emerging oneself in time, means that one is condemned to the fads of fashion.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
-
O you butlers, creators of new forms, make me of no drinker a drinker, a perennity and everlastingness of sprinkling and bedewing me through these my parched and sinewy bowels.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
-
O you butlers, creators of new forms, make me of no drinker a drinker, a perennity and everlastingness of sprinkling and bedewing me through these my parched and sinewy bowels.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
-
The perennity of reason imposes that of beauty, since if beauty were to change, reason, which is the judge of beauty, would change also.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas HERBERT DIECKMANN 1968
-
It is the contrast between the rather incoherent ways of the rovers of high life and the character of perennity impressed everywhere in the great city of the Caesars and of the Popes which has caused me to choose the spot where even the corners speak of a secular past, there to evoke some representatives of the most modern, as well as the most arbitrary and the most momentary, life.
madmouth commented on the word perennity
a portmanteau of 'perennial' and 'eternity', I presume. Means much the same as either.
April 24, 2009
duckbill commented on the word perennity
No, it is not a portmanteau. It simply comes from Latin perennis.
April 23, 2011
qms commented on the word perennity
Indulge in a cleansing obscenity
Then face the new year with serenity.
Despair put away!
You’ve aged but a day;
The changed date marks only perennity.
December 31, 2017