Synonyms for assiduity
Most common
attention application concentration assiduousness pains exertion
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Noun
1. Assiduousness
assiduousness, industry, attention, application, concentration, patience, diligence, persistence, perseverance, painstaking, constancy, sedulousness, sedulity
Definitions
- n. 1
Great and persistent toil or effort.
Forms
- Plural
- assiduities → industries, attentions, applications, concentrations…
Choose the right word
ad, to, and plico, fold) bends to its work and concentrates all one's powers upon it with utmost intensity; hence, application can hardly be as unremitting as assiduity.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- attention We should have paid attention to the announcement.
- application Fill in this application form and send it at once.
- concentration Tom's grandfather was a concentration camp survivor.
- pains It still pains me how much of a coward Bruno was.
- exertion After much exertion, he was exhausted.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| assiduity | falling | |
| attention | steady | |
| application | steady | |
| concentration | falling | |
| assiduousness | steady | |
| pains | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- pains1
- 8 letters
- industry3, patience2, exertion3, sedulity
- 9 letters
- attention3, diligence3, constancy3
- 11 letters
- application4, persistence3, painstaking3
- 12 letters
- perseverance4, sedulousness
- 13 letters
- concentration4, assiduousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (industry3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- assiduité
- Italiano
- assiduità
- Català
- assiduïtat