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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Duration \Du*ra"tion\, noun [OF. duration. See {Dure}.] The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.
It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. --Macaulay.
Soon shall have passed our own human duration. --D. Webster.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
duration
noun
1: the period of time during which something continues [syn: {continuance}]
2: the property of enduring or continuing in time [syn: {continuance}]
3: continuance in time; "the ceremony was of short duration"; "he complained about the length of time required" [syn: {length}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "duration": abidingness, age, antiquity, changelessness, chronology, constancy, continuance, continuation, continuity, defeat of time, defiance of time, diuturnity, durability, durableness, duree, endurance, firmness, fixedness, frozenness, hardening, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, lastingness, long standing, long-lastingness, long-livedness, longevity, maintenance, perdurability, perennation, period, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, perpetuity, persistence, persistency, psychological time, quiescence, rigidity, run, solidity, space, space-time, span, spell, stability, standing, stasis, steadfastness, survival, survivance, tense, tenure, term, the future, the past, the present, tide, time, timebinding, torpor, unchangeability, unchangingness, while
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