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Duration vs. Perpetuity

Difference Between Duration and Perpetuity

Duration

Continuance or persistence in time.
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Perpetuity

A perpetuity is an annuity that has no end, or a stream of cash payments that continues forever. There are few actual perpetuities in existence.
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Duration

A period of existence or persistence
sat quietly through the duration of the speech.
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Perpetuity

The quality or condition of being perpetual
"The perpetuity of the Church was an article of faith" (Morris L. West).
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Duration

The number of years required to receive the present value of future payments, both of interest and principle, of a bond, often used as an indicator of a bond's price volatility resulting from changes in interest rates.
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Perpetuity

Time without end; eternity.
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Duration

An amount of time or a particular time interval.
The duration of the flight will be about 2 hours 45 minutes.
She was moaning for the entire duration of the advert break.
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Perpetuity

The condition of an estate that is limited so as to be inalienable either perpetually or longer than the period determined by law.
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Duration

(in the singular, not followed by "of") The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war
Rationing will last at least for the duration.
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Perpetuity

An estate so limited.
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Duration

(finance) A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates, computed for a simple bond as a weighted average of the maturities of the interest and principal payments associated with it.
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Perpetuity

An annuity payable indefinitely.
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Duration

The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.
It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited.
Soon shall have passed our own human duration.
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Perpetuity

(uncountable) The quality or state of being perpetual; endless duration; uninterrupted existence.
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Duration

the period of time during which something continues
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Perpetuity

(countable) Something that is perpetual.
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Duration

the property of enduring or continuing in time
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Perpetuity

A limitation intended to be unalterable and of indefinite duration; a disposition of property which attempts to make it inalienable beyond certain limits fixed or conceived as being fixed by the general law.
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Duration

continuance in time;
the ceremony was of short duration
he complained about the length of time required
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Perpetuity

An annuity in which the periodic payments begin on a fixed date and continue indefinitely.
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Perpetuity

The quality or state of being perpetual; as, the perpetuity of laws.
A path to perpetuity of fame.
The perpetuity of single emotion is insanity.
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Perpetuity

Something that is perpetual.
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Perpetuity

Endless time.
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Perpetuity

The number of years in which the simple interest of any sum becomes equal to the principal.
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Perpetuity

Duration without limitations as to time.
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Perpetuity

the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless)
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