About The Word Inveteracy
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Inveteracy
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What's The Definition Of Inveteracy?Synonyms | Synonyms for Inveteracy: Related Terms | Find terms related to Inveteracy: abidingness | aboriginality | accustomedness | age | ancien regime | ancientness | antiquity | atavism | changelessness | cobwebs of antiquity | commonness | confirmation | confirmedness | constancy | customariness | deep-rootedness | deep-seatedness | durability | durableness | duration | dust of ages | eld | elderliness | eldership | embedment | endurance | entrenchment | establishment | firmness | fixation | fixedness | fixity | fixture | frozenness | great age | habitualness | hardening | hoary age | hoary eld | immobility | immovability | immovableness | immutability | implantation | infixion | invariability | invariableness | inveterateness | lastingness | long standing | old age | old order | old style | oldness | permanence | permanency | perpetualness | persistence | persistency | prevalence | primitiveness | primogeniture | primordialism | primordiality | quiescence | rigidity | senility | seniority | settledness | solidity | stability | stabilization | standing | stasis | steadfastness | torpor | unchangeability | unchangingness | venerableness | wontedness See Also | Inveteracy In Webster's Dictionary \In*vet"er*a*cy\, n. [From {Inveterate}.]
1. Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or
deep-rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by
time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; --
usually in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice or
of error.
An inveteracy of evil habits that will prompt him to
contract more. --A. Tucker.
2. Malignity; spitefulness; virulency.
The rancor of pamphlets, the inveteracy of epigrams,
an the mortification of lampoons. --Guardian.
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