tenacity

tenacity
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Persistence
Nouns — tenacity, cohesion, coherence; holding, strength; viscidity, viscosity; pertinacity, perseverance, persistence, resolution, patience; obstinacy, resistance, constancy, retention. Informal, stick-to-itiveness, trucking.
Verbs — adhere (to), stick (to), cling (to); persevere, persist, hold on or out, never say die, fight to the last ditch, be in at the death, stick to one's guns; keep on, hold one's course or ground, bear or keep up, continue, plod, follow through or up. Informal, stick it out, muddle through, see it through, hang on for dear life, keep a stiff upper lip, keep one's chin up.
Adjectives — tenacious, cohesive, adhesive, clinging, holding, fast, resisting, strong; sticky, gummy, tacky, waxy, glutinous, viscous, viscid; pertinacious, persistent, persevering, dogged, determined, unyielding, uncompromising, unwavering, unfaltering; obstinate, stubborn, intransigent, opinionated, positive, single-minded; steady, steadfast, firm, resolute, constant, purposeful, relentless; retentive. Informal, pigheaded, never-say-die.
Adverbs — tenaciously, etc.; through thick and thin, rain or shine.
Quotations — To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man (Euripides), Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance (Samuel Johnson), Perseverance is more prevailing than violence (Plutarch).
Antonyms, see weakness, submission.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. perseverance, obstinacy, resolution; see determination 2 , stubbornness .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
persistence, toughness, mental toughness, stubbornness, resolve, resolution, backbone, doggedness, perseverance, strength, *stick-to-itiveness, grit, endurance.
ANT.: weakness, weak will, spinelessness
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being stubbornly unyielding: bullheadedness, doggedness, hard-headedness, mulishness, obstinacy, obstinateness, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, pigheadedness, tenaciousness, willfulness. See RESIST.

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