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.

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  • noun The quality of being perennial.

Etymologies

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Latin perennitas.

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  • a portmanteau of 'perennial' and 'eternity', I presume. Means much the same as either.

    April 24, 2009

  • No, it is not a portmanteau. It simply comes from Latin perennis.

    April 23, 2011

  • 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