'Inveteracy' definitions:
Definition of 'Inveteracy'
From: GCIDE
- Inveteracy \In*vet"er*a*cy\, n. [From Inveterate.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- An inveteracy of evil habits that will prompt him to contract more. --A. Tucker. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Malignity; spitefulness; virulency. [1913 Webster]
- The rancor of pamphlets, the inveteracy of epigrams, and the mortification of lampoons. --Guardian. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'inveteracy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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