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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1. Justin Wang:

   The crater rim of the Jezero Crater, where the Perseverance rover is now, is a place that likely exhibited hydrothermal activity due to the crater-forming impact that occurred, so I'd be curious to see what results Perseverance finds when it reaches there.

2. Ray Kelly:

   The people in our communities are not desensitized to violence, every incidence of violence potentially destroys families, and we can not confuse people's perseverance and willingness to survive as tolerance or complacency.

3. Marie Curie:

   Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

4. Lee Iacocca:

   You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

5. Secretary Wilkie:

   In the case of Jefferson Davis, we must tell America the truth about the complicated man who carried with Jefferson Davis the dreams of Southern independence, jefferson Davis life was the reflection of the simplicity and perseverance of a proud people ; men and women who endured the horror of defeat and its equally hellish aftermath ; men and women who through their Christian prism understood the fall of man and the imperfection of human institutions -- that not all of man's noble experiments succeed.