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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstinacy |
| Synonyms: | bullheadedness, determination, doggedness, hardheadedness, mulishness, obstinance, obstinateness, pertinaciousness, perverseness, perversity, pigheadedness, purpose, reluctance, tenaciousness, tenacity, willfulness |
| Main Entry: | endurance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bearing hardship; staying power |
| Synonyms: | ability, allowance, backbone, bearing, capacity, continuing, cool, coolness, courage, enduring, forebearance, fortitude, grit, guts, gutsiness, heart*, holding up, intestinal fortitude, mettle, moxie*, patience, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, pluck, resignation, resistance, resolution, restraint, spunk, stamina, standing, starch, strength, submission, sufferance, suffering, tenacity, tolerance, toleration, undergoing, vitality, will, withstanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perseverance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | diligence, hard work |
| Synonyms: | backbone*, constancy, continuance, cool, dedication, determination, doggedness, drive, endurance, grit, guts*, immovability, indefatigability, moxie*, persistence, pertinacity, pluck, prolonging, purposefulness, pursuance, resolution, sedulity, spunk, stamina, steadfastness, stick-to-itiveness, tenacity |
| Antonyms: | apathy, idleness, indolence, laziness, lethargy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tenacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | diligence, stubbornness |
| Synonyms: | application, backbone, chutzpah*, clock, courage, determination, doggedness, firmness, grit, guts*, gutsiness, guttiness, heart*, inflexibility, intestinal fortitude, intransigence, moxie*, nerve, obduracy, obstinacy, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, spunk, starch, staunchness, steadfastness, stick-to-itiveness, stomach*, strength of purpose, true grit, what it takes, willfulness |
| Antonyms: | indifference, irresolution, slackness, weakness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stubbornness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | determination |
| Synonyms: | adamancy, bullheadedness, contumacy, doggedness, indomitability, inflexibility, mulishness, obduracy, obstinacy, perseverance, pertinacity, pigheadedness |
| Antonyms: | amenability, flexibility, indetermination, irresolution |
| Main Entry: | doggedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perseverance |
| Synonyms: | pertinacity, stamina, tenacity |
| Antonyms: | hesitance |
| Main Entry: | bullheadedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstinacy |
| Synonyms: | doggedness, hardheadedness, headstrongness, mulishness, obstinateness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pigheadedness, resolve, self-will, stubbornness, tenaciousness, tenacity, willfulness |
| Main Entry: | hardheadedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstinacy |
| Synonyms: | bullheadedness, determination, doggedness, mulishness, obstinance, obstinateness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, pigheadedness, purpose, reluctance, tenaciousness, tenacity, willfulness |
| Main Entry: | implacability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stubbornness |
| Synonyms: | adamancy, bullheadedness, contumacy, die-hardism, doggedness, grimness, implacableness, incompliance, incompliancy, indomitability, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, inflexibleness, intransigence, intransigency, mulishness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, perseverance, pertinacity, pigheadedness, relentlessness, remorselessness, rigidity, rigidness |
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