Toughness

Noun

 * 1)  The state of being tough
 * 2)  Resistance to fracture when stressed
 * 3) A formidable difficulty

Derived terms

 * graph toughness

Verbs for Toughness
acquire—; augment—; boast of—; deplore —; glory in—; mitigate—; preserve— — affords; breasts; —defies; —endures — insures; —protects; —rebuffs; —repels —-resists; —supports;  —sustains;  —withstands ; —yields.

Thesaurus
Spartanism, abstruseness, adamantness, adhesiveness, arduousness, astringency, austerity, authoritarianism, backbone, body, bothersomeness, bottom, bullheadedness, burdensomeness, callosity, callousness, chutzpah, clabbering, clamminess, clotting, coagulation, cohesiveness, colloidality, complexity, complication, concreteness, consistency, courage, curdling, decisiveness, demandingness, density, difficultness, difficulty, discipline, doughiness, dourness, durability, durity, endurance, energy, exactingness, firmness, flintiness, force, fortitude, gameness, gelatinity, gelatinousness, gluelikeness, gluiness, glutinosity, glutinousness, grimness, grit, gumlikeness, gumminess, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, hairiness, hard-bittenness, hard-nosedness, hardiness, hardness, hardness of heart, harshness, heart, heart of oak, heartiness, heaviness, immovability, immutability, impenetrability, implacability, impliability, incrassation, induration, inelasticity, inexorability, inflexibility, inspissation, intestinal fortitude, intransigeance, intransigence, intransigency, intransigentism, intricacy, irreconcilability, jellification, jellylikeness, laboriousness, lentor, lustihood, lustiness, mass, materiality, meticulousness, mettle, mettlesomeness, might, mightiness, moxie, mucilaginousness, nerve, obduracy, obstinacy, onerousness, oppressiveness, palpability, pastiness, persistence, persistency, pith, pluck, pluckiness, ponderability, potency, power, powerfulness, regimentation, relentlessness, resistance, restiveness, retention, rigid discipline, rigidity, rigor, rigorism, rigorousness, robustness, ropiness, ruggedness, severity, slabbiness, sliminess, snugness, solidity, soundness, spirit, spissitude, spunk, spunkiness, stability, stalwartness, stamina, staying power, steadiness, steeliness, sternness, stick-to-itiveness, stickiness, sticking power, stiff temper, stiffness, stodginess, stoniness, stout heart, stoutness, strength, strength of will, strenuousness, strictness, stringency, stringiness, stubbornness, sturdiness, substance, substantiality, substantialness, syrupiness, tackiness, tangibility, tenaciousness, tenacity, thickening, thickness, tightness, toilsomeness, treacliness, troublesomeness, true grit, unalterability, unbendingness, unchangeability, uncompromisingness, ungivingness, unrelentingness, unyieldingness, vigor, vigorousness, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness, vitality

Translations

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Anagrams

 * oughtness