Life and Span

Life

Life noun - The period during which something exists, lasts, or is in progress.

Usage example: the Egyptian civilization had an extremely long life

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Span and life are semantically related in existence topic. In some cases you can use "Span" instead a noun "Life", when it comes to topics like live.

Nearby Words: lifeless, lifetime, lifer, lifeline

Span noun - The distance or interval between two points.

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Life and span are semantically related in live topic. Sometimes you can use "Life" instead a noun "Span".

Nearby Word: spanned

good	good life	good span
high	high life	high span
full	full life	full span
low	low life	low span
Other adjectives: long, normal, natural, short, original, single, entire, terrible, horrible, married.

We Are as Mayflies: Trolls have a shorter life-span than humans and tend to live to about fifty.

Source: Characters / Shadowrun
Also, an early episode dealt with Humans who were taken off-world and injected with a virus that caused them to live out their entire life-span in about 100 days.

Source: We Are as Mayflies
Fairies and all sub-species in Artemis Fowl are implied to live for a few hundred years, or at least long enough for 'decade' to roughly equal 'year' when scaled to human life-span.

Source: Long Lived

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