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assiduousness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | diligence |
| Synonyms: | assiduity, attention, attentiveness, care, concentration, doggedness, effort, industriousness, industry, persistence, sedulousness |
| Main Entry: | persistency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insistence |
| Synonyms: | emphasis, importunity, insistency, perseverance, persistence, urging |
| Main Entry: | persistency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | continuation |
| Synonyms: | assiduity, augmenting, continuance, continuing, continuity, continuum, duration, endurance, enduring, extension, furtherance, going on, increase, increasing, line, maintaining, perpetuating, perpetuation, persistence, persisting, postscript, preservation, preserving, producing, production, prolongation, prolonging, propagation, protracting, protraction, sequel, succession, supplement, sustaining, sustenance, tenacity |
| Main Entry: | purposefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decision |
| Synonyms: | backbone*, decidedness, decisiveness, determination, doggedness, earnestness, firmness, fortitude, grit, iron will, obstinacy, obstinance, perseverance, persistence, pluck, purpose, purposiveness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, seriousness, spine, stubbornness, toughness, volition, will, will power, willpower |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resoluteness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decision |
| Synonyms: | backbone*, decidedness, decisiveness, determination, doggedness, earnestness, firmness, fortitude, grit, iron will, obstinacy, obstinance, perseverance, persistence, pluck, purpose, purposefulness, purposiveness, resolution, resolve, seriousness, spine, stubbornness, toughness, volition, will, will power, willpower |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | toughness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | determination |
| Synonyms: | backbone*, decidedness, decisiveness, doggedness, earnestness, firmness, fortitude, grit, iron will, obstinacy, obstinance, perseverance, persistence, pluck, purpose, purposefulness, purposiveness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, seriousness, spine, stubbornness, volition, will, will power, willpower |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | determination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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bent upon, decided, definitive, determined, earnest, firm, game to the backbone, indomitable, inexorable, inflexible, intent upon, iron, not to be put down, not to be shaken, obstinate, peremptory, pertinacious, proof against, relentless, resolute, resolved, self, set upon, staunch, steady, steeled against, strong, trenchant, unflinching, unhesitating, unshrinking
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| Main Entry: | frequency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | [Uninterrupted sequence] Continuity. |
| Category: | 2. CONSECUTIVE ORDER |
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-nouns
continuity; consecution, consecutiveness; succession, round, suite, progression, series, train, chain; catenation, concatenation; scale; gradation, course; ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent., procession, column; retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array., pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race; ancestry, descent, family, house; line, line of ancestors; strain., rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team; suit; colonnade.
-verbs
follow in a series, form a series; fall in., arrange in a series, collate; string together, file, thread, graduate, organize, sort, tabulate.
-adjectives
continuous, continued; consecutive; progressive, gradual; serial, successive; immediate, unbroken, entire; linear; in a line, in a row; uninterrupted, unintermitting; unremitting; perennial, evergreen; constant.
-adverbs
continuously; seriatim; in a line; in succession, in turn; running, gradually, step by step, gradatim, at a stretch; in file, in column, in single file, in Indian file.
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| Antonyms: | discontinuity |
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