The word "lastingness" is not a commonly used word in English writing.
However, it is an accepted word and could be used if you are trying to describe something as having long-lasting effects or a long-lasting nature. For example, you could say, "The lastingness of her love was inspiring."
I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness".
Besotted with both the mythology and the utter disposability of pop, Cohn never gave much thought to lastingness.
Edward Black, Church Point, NSW, Australia Trust, affection and lastingness.
For American originalists, in particular, Magna Carta has a special lastingness.
His reticent, riotous art, nursery size, ambiguous in meaning, ambivalent in gender, essentially religious in disposition, sent tremors through the monument called secular modernism, helped break up and scatter its ideals of bigness, highness and lastingness.
Although Brooke Allen's review of "Lastingness," by Nicholas Delbanco (Jan.
There is clearly a major book waiting to be written on old-age art, but "Lastingness," more amuse-bouche than meaty repast, is not the one.
In the same vein, another reader claims to have been "very interested in Brooke Allen's review," but fails to note that "Lastingness" makes the points enumerated in the letter.
As the author of "Lastingness: The Art of Old Age," I thought it the better part of valor not to respond to Brooke Allen's assessment of my work ("Late Style," Jan . 23.
His new book, "Lastingness: The Art of Old Age," touches on the late works of a number of great elders, including such /geriatric wonders as Matisse, Monet, Sophocles, Sibelius, Picasso, Thomas Hardy and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
If "Lastingness" serves no other purpose than to raise a few of these questions in the general reader's mind, it will prove to have been a worthwhile exercise.
