enduring
en-DOOR-ingadjMeaning lasting a long time
Memory hook en-DUR-ing: as DURABLE as stone. The great stone pyramid has stood through thousands of years of sun and sandstorms, and visitors still come to see it. It is enduring.
Their enduring friendship began in kindergarten and is still going strong.
In context Many songs are popular for a single summer, but this lullaby has proved enduring: parents have sung it to their babies for more than two hundred years.
Similar lasting, long-lived, abiding, durable
Opposite fleeting, short-lived, transient
From Latin indurare, “to make hard,” from durus, hard, the root of durable.