Synonyms for endurance
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Stamina
stamina, strength, fortitude, forbearance, patience, vigor US, vigour UK, staying power, suffering, nerve, sufferance dated, tolerance dated, toleration dated, thole dated rare
2. Persistence
persistence, duration, lasting, continuance, permanence, continuation, lastingness
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
The measure of a person's stamina or persistence.
He has great endurance: he ran a marathon and then cycled home.
- n. 2
An ability to endure hardship.
Related words
- Word family
- endure
Forms
- Plural
- endurances → staminas, strengths, fortitudes, forbearances…
Choose the right word
Resolution is of the mind; endurance is partly physical; it requires resolution to resist temptation, endurance to resist hunger and cold.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- strength I have underestimated the strength of my opponent.
- stamina Sam doesn't have the stamina to finish a marathon.
- fortitude You can't even imagine how much fortitude it requires.
- forbearance Do not mistake patience for forbearance.
- duration Gradually increase the duration of your workouts.
- persistence Learning a foreign language demands persistence.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| endurance | steady | |
| strength | steady | |
| stamina | rising | |
| fortitude | rising | |
| forbearance | rising | |
| duration | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- nerve1, vigor2, thole1
- 6 letters
- vigour
- 7 letters
- bearing2, lasting2, stamina3
- 8 letters
- strength1, survival3, patience2, duration3
- 9 letters
- suffering3, tolerance3, fortitude3
- 10 letters
- permanence3, toleration4, sufferance
- 11 letters
- persistence3, continuance4, forbearance3, lastingness
- 12 letters
- continuation5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (vigor2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- endurance
- Italiano
- resistenza
- Deutsch
- Ausdauer