Synonyms for perseverance
ˌpɜr səˈvɪər ənsper·se·ver·ance

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.8 / 11 votes

1. perseverance

   Industry is the quality, action, or habit of earnest, steady, and continued attention or devotion to any useful or productive work or task, manual or mental. Assiduity (Latin ad, to, and sedeo, sit), as the etymology suggests, sits down to a task until it is done. Diligence (Latin diligo, love, choose) invests more effort and exertion, with love of the work or deep interest in its accomplishment; application (Latin ad, to, and plico, fold) bends to its work and concentrates all one's powers upon it with utmost intensity; hence, application can hardly be as unremitting as assiduity. Constancy is a steady devotion of heart and principle. Patience works on in spite of annoyances; perseverance overcomes hindrances and difficulties; persistence strives relentlessly against opposition; persistence has very frequently an unfavorable meaning, implying that one persists in spite of considerations that should induce him to desist. Industry is diligence applied to some avocation, business, or profession. Labor and pains refer to the exertions of the worker and the tax upon him, while assiduity, perseverance, etc., refer to his continuance in the work.

   Synonyms:
   application, assiduity, attention, constancy, diligence, effort, exertion, industry, intentness, labor, pains, patience, persistence, sedulousness

   Antonyms:
   changeableness, fickleness, idleness, inattention, inconstancy, indolence, neglect, negligence, remissness, sloth

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenacity, tenaciousness, pertinacitynoun

   persistent determination

   Synonyms:
   tenacity, persistency, perseveration, persistence, doggedness, pertinacity, tenaciousness, continuity

2. perseverance, persistence, perseverationnoun

   the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior

   "his perseveration continued to the point where it was no longer appropriate"

   Synonyms:
   tenacity, persistency, perseveration, persistence, doggedness, pertinacity, tenaciousness, continuity

Matched Categories

1. • Continuance
   • Determination

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. perseverancenoun

   Synonyms:
   steadiness, persistence, persistency, constancy

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. perseverancenoun

   Synonyms:
   persistence, diligence, constancy, indefatigableness, assiduity, pertinacity

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "perseverance":

   tenacity, persistence, stamina, steadfastness, persevering, insistence, endurance, resilience

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How to use perseverance in a sentence?

1. Newt Gingrich:

   Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

2. Joseph Addison:

   If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

3. Samuel Johnson:

   Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

4. Bryan Cea:

   We are not just teaching young people how to play an instrument but we are teaching them that here you can achieve and solve things through hard work and perseverance, parents have told us their children are happier and their school grades have improved.

5. Sophie Swetchine:

   There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.