Definition for Perpetuation:

• The act of making perpetual; incessant continuance.

Synonyms for Perpetuation:

• n.

  •continuance (noun)
  • protraction,
  • longevity,
  • endurance,
  • term,
  • period,
  • survival,
  • extension,
  • guts,
  • vitality,
  • run,
  • constancy.
  •continuation (noun)
  • preserving,
  • post scripts,
  • assiduity,
  • continuity,
  • going on,
  • enduring,
  • propagation,
  • sequel,
  • continuing,
  • production,
  • sustenance,
  • Perpetuating,
  • persisting,
  • increase,
  • Producing,
  • succession,
  • Maintaining,
  • postscript,
  • increasing,
  • tenacity,
  • post script,
  • furtherance,
  • Protracting,
  • Sustaining,
  • supplement,
  • line,
  • augmenting,
  • Prolonging,
  • prolongation.
  •duration (noun)
  • extent,
  • tide,
  • spell,
  • span,
  • time,
  • stretch.
  •endlessness (noun)
  • eternity,
  • perpetuity,
  • ceaselessness,
  • forever.
  •eternality (noun)
  • infinity.
  •everlastingness (noun)
  • hereafter,
  • deathlessness,
  • afterlife.
  •permanence (noun)
  • permanencies,
  • dependability,
  • immutability,
  • permanency,
  • stability,
  • durability,
  • dependabilities.
  •perpetuation (noun)
  • lengthening.
  •persistency (noun)
  • continuum.
  •preservation (noun)
  • freezing,
  • keeping,
  • safeguard,
  • Pickling,
  • sustentation,
  • guardianship,
  • guard,
  • tanning,
  • defense,
  • saving,
  • conservancy,
  • security,
  • safety,
  • care,
  • storage,
  • evaporation,
  • ward,
  • safekeeping,
  • salvation,
  • curing,
  • conservation,
  • Canning,
  • upholding,
  • shield,
  • safeguarding,
  • refrigeration,
  • preserval,
  • support.

• Other synonyms:

  •eternal life
  • immortality.

Paraphrases for Perpetuation:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    continuity, maintenance, extension, persistency, retention, continue, transmission.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    continuation, persistence, continuance, perpetration, preservation, reproduction, fuelling, sustainability, prolongation, pursuit, permanence, prosecution, continuing, durability.

Antonyms for Perpetuation:

• n.

  • continuance
    ending, obstruction, hindrance, finish, end, stoppage, arrest, stop.
  • continuation
    halt, termination, cessation.
  • persistency
    decrease, indifference, curtailment.
  • preservation
    harm, neglect, injury, hurt, destruction, Endangerment, danger, ruin.

Perpetuation Sentence Examples:

• The judge who continues to apply the outgrown absurdities of adjective law may do it from timidity or from being too lazy to think out the new problems whose solution must precede readjustment to present social needs, but the criminal lawyer who can free his guilty client by means of these technicalities has an active interest in their perpetuation.

• If the present state of affairs continues in this matter, we are simply allowing ourselves to be led by the nose by these cunning people into the perpetuation of a state of affairs in which they may do what they like because we have become foolishly oversensitive in the matter of inflicting punishment.