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continuance
Overview of noun continuance
The noun continuance has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) continuance, continuation -- (the act of continuing an activity without interruption)
2. duration, continuance -- (the period of time during which something continues)
3. duration, continuance -- (the property of enduring or continuing in time)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun continuance
3 senses of continuance
Sense 1
continuance, continuation
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
duration, continuance
=> time period, period of time, period
=> fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
=> measure, quantity, amount
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
duration, continuance
=> time
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun continuance
2 of 3 senses of continuance
Sense 1
continuance, continuation
=> prolongation, protraction, perpetuation, lengthening
=> repetition, repeating
=> perseverance, persistence, perseveration
=> abidance
=> pursuance, prosecution
=> survival
Sense 2
duration, continuance
=> clocking
=> longueur
=> residence time
=> span
=> stretch, stint
=> time scale
=> value, time value, note value
=> rule
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun continuance
3 senses of continuance
Sense 1
continuance, continuation
=> activity
Sense 2
duration, continuance
=> time period, period of time, period
Sense 3
duration, continuance
=> time
Antonyms of noun continuance
1 of 3 senses of continuance
Sense 1
continuance, continuation
Antonym of discontinuance (Sense 1)
=>discontinuance, discontinuation
Member Holonyms of noun continuance
Substance Holonyms of noun continuance
Part Holonyms of noun continuance
Member Meronyms of noun continuance
Substance Meronyms of noun continuance
Part Meronyms of noun continuance
Meronyms of noun continuance
Holonyms of noun continuance
Attributes of noun continuance
Derived Forms of noun continuance
3 senses of continuance
Sense 1
continuance, continuation
RELATED TO>(adj) continuant#2
=> constant, continuant
RELATED TO>(verb) continue#1
=> continue, go on, proceed, go along, keep
Sense 2
duration, continuance
RELATED TO>(verb) continue#10
=> continue
Sense 3
duration, continuance
RELATED TO>(adj) continuant#1
=> fricative, continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident
Domain of noun continuance
Domain Terms of noun continuance
Familiarity of noun continuance
continuance used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun continuance
3 senses of continuance
Sense 1
continuance, continuation
> activity
=> variation, variance
=> space walk
=> domesticity
=> operation
=> operation
=> practice, pattern
=> diversion, recreation
=> cup of tea, bag, dish
=> follow-up, followup
=> game
=> turn, play
=> music
=> acting, playing, playacting, performing
=> liveliness, animation
=> burst, fit
=> work
=> works, deeds
=> service
=> occupation, business, job, line of work, line
=> occupation
=> writing, committal to writing
=> role
=> wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus
=> waste, wastefulness, dissipation
=> attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
=> control
=> protection
=> sensory activity
=> education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational activity
=> training, preparation, grooming
=> representation
=> creation, creative activity
=> dismantling, dismantlement, disassembly
=> line function, line duty
=> puncture
=> search, hunt, hunting
=> use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise
=> operation, military operation
=> measurement, measuring, measure, mensuration
=> calibration, standardization, standardisation
=> organization, organisation
=> grouping
=> support, supporting
=> continuance, continuation
=> procedure, process
=> ceremony
=> ceremony
=> worship
=> energizing, activating, activation
=> concealment, concealing, hiding
=> placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement
=> provision, supply, supplying
=> demand
=> pleasure
=> enjoyment, delectation
=> lamentation, mourning
=> laughter
=> market, marketplace
=> preparation, readying
=> aid, assist, assistance, help
=> support
=> behavior, behaviour, conduct, doings
=> behavior, behaviour
=> leadership, leading
=> precession, precedence, precedency
=> solo
=> buzz
=> fun
=> sin, hell
=> release, outlet, vent
=> last
=> mystification, obfuscation
=> negotiation
=> perturbation, disturbance
=> timekeeping
Sense 2
duration, continuance
> time period, period of time, period
=> trial period, test period
=> time frame
=> hours
=> downtime
=> uptime
=> work time
=> time off
=> bout
=> hospitalization
=> travel time
=> times
=> time
=> elapsed time
=> duration, continuance
=> week, calendar week
=> midweek
=> field day
=> life, lifetime, life-time, lifespan
=> life
=> life
=> millennium, millenary
=> bimillennium, bimillenary
=> occupation
=> past
=> shelf life
=> puerperium
=> lactation
=> time of life
=> calendar day, civil day
=> festival
=> day, daytime, daylight
=> morning, morn, morning time, forenoon
=> night, nighttime, dark
=> night
=> night
=> night
=> eve
=> evening
=> week, hebdomad
=> fortnight, two weeks
=> weekend
=> Indian summer, Saint Martin's summer
=> year
=> school, schooltime, school day
=> year, twelvemonth, yr
=> year
=> semester
=> bimester
=> Olympiad
=> lustrum
=> decade, decennary, decennium
=> century
=> quadrennium
=> quinquennium
=> half-century
=> quarter-century
=> quarter
=> phase of the moon
=> day
=> calendar month, month
=> mid-January
=> mid-February
=> mid-March
=> mid-April
=> mid-May
=> mid-June
=> mid-July
=> mid-August
=> mid-September
=> mid-October
=> mid-November
=> mid-December
=> time limit
=> term
=> trimester
=> hour
=> silly season
=> Golden Age
=> silver age
=> bronze age
HAS INSTANCE=> Bronze Age
=> iron age
HAS INSTANCE=> Iron Age
HAS INSTANCE=> Stone Age
HAS INSTANCE=> Eolithic Age, Eolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Paleolithic Age, Paleolithic, Palaeolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Lower Paleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Middle Paleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Upper Paleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Mesolithic Age, Mesolithic, Epipaleolithic
HAS INSTANCE=> Neolithic Age, Neolithic, New Stone Age
=> great year, Platonic year
=> regulation time
=> overtime, extra time
=> season, time of year
=> dog days, canicule, canicular days
=> midwinter
=> season
=> season
=> long time, age, years
=> long run, long haul
=> drought, drouth
=> era, epoch
=> generation
=> prehistory, prehistoric culture
=> reign
=> run
=> youth, early days
=> dawn
=> evening
=> time
=> sleep, nap
=> lease, term of a contract
=> half life, half-life
=> tide, lunar time period
=> phase, stage
=> multistage
=> watch
=> peacetime
=> wartime
=> enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour
=> honeymoon
=> indiction
=> prohibition, prohibition era
=> incubation period
=> rainy day
=> novitiate, noviciate
=> flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush
=> running time
=> period, historic period, historical period
=> clotting time
=> air alert
HAS INSTANCE=> Great Schism
=> question time
=> real time
=> real time
=> study hall
=> usance
=> window
Sense 3
duration, continuance
> time
=> geological time, geologic time
=> biological time
=> cosmic time
=> civil time, standard time, local time
=> daylight-saving time, daylight-savings time, daylight saving, daylight savings
=> present, nowadays
=> past, past times, yesteryear, yore
=> future, hereafter, futurity, time to come
=> musical time
=> continuum
=> Greenwich Mean Time, Greenwich Time, GMT, universal time, UT, UT1
=> duration, continuance
=> eternity, infinity
Meronyms of noun continuance
3 senses of continuance
Holonyms of noun continuance
Grep of noun continuance
continuance
discontinuance
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