Perseverance

Noun

 * 1) continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure
 * 2) persistent determination to adhere to a plan of direction; insistence
 * 3) * 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
 * It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

Related terms

 * persevere
 * perseverant

Adjectives for Perseverance
unflagging; relentless; tugging; resolute; dogged; steady; indefinite; incredible; majestic; patient; indomitable; scheming; unfaltering; mechanical.

Verbs for Perseverance
acclaim—; acquire by—; instil—; reward —; tax—; wed to—; yield to—; —buckles down; —clings; —devotes; —drives; —falters; —fights; —persists; —plods; —plunges.

Thesaurus
acceptance, assiduity, balkiness, bigotry, bullheadedness, commitment, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, decidedness, decision, decisiveness, dedication, definiteness, determinateness, determination, determinedness, devotion, diligence, doggedness, dogmatism, earnestness, endurance, extension, fanaticism, firmness, fixed mind, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness, fortitude, grit, guts, hardheadedness, headstrongness, indefatigability, indulgence, inflexibility, inflexible will, intolerance, lengthening, lenience, leniency, long-sufferance, long-suffering, longanimity, maintenance, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, obstinateness, opinionatedness, overzealousness, patience, patience of Job, patientness, perpetuation, persistence, pertinacity, pigheadedness, pluck, progress, progression, prolongation, protraction, purpose, purposefulness, pursuance, relentlessness, repetition, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, resolvedness, restiveness, run, sedulousness, self-control, self-will, seriousness, sincerity, single-mindedness, stamina, staying power, steadfastness, stiff neck, stiff-neckedness, stoicism, straight course, strongheadness, stubbornness, sufferance, sulkiness, sullenness, sustained action, sustenance, sweet reasonableness, tenaciousness, tenacity, tirelessness, tolerance, toleration, total commitment, uncooperativeness, uninterrupted course, unregenerateness, unremittingness, waiting game, waiting it out, way, will, willfulness

Translations

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 * Mandarin:, , 毅力
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 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 忍耐 (にんたい, nintai)
 * Korean: 인내 (innae)
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: упорство,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ihärdighet
 * Telugu: పట్టుదల (paTTudala)