Synonyms for persistence
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Noun
1. Perseverance
perseverance, persistency, tenacity, patience, endurance, stubbornness, obstinacy, insistence, continuance, continuation, resolution, industry, doggedness, pertinacity, obduracy, assiduity, tenaciousness, indefatigability, perseveration, constancy
Definitions
- n. 1
The property of being persistent.
You've got to admire her persistence. She's asked him out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
Forms
- Plural
- persistences → perseverances, persistencies, tenacities, patiences…
Example sentences
- patience A man without patience is like a lamp without oil.
- perseverance Learning a foreign language requires perseverance.
- tenacity With tenacity like that, you can learn any language.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| persistence | rising | |
| patience | rising | |
| perseverance | rising | |
| tenacity | steady | |
| persistency | falling | |
| indefatigableness | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 8 letters
- industry3, patience2, tenacity4, obduracy
- 9 letters
- endurance3, constancy3, obstinacy4, assiduity
- 10 letters
- resolution4, continuity5, insistence3, perpetuity5, doggedness
- 11 letters
- continuance4, persistency, pertinacity
- 12 letters
- continuation5, perseverance4, stubbornness3
- 13 letters
- perseveration, tenaciousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (industry3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- persistance
- Italiano
- persistenza
- Español
- persistencia