Synonyms for diligence
ˈdɪl ɪ dʒəns; Fr. di liˈʒɑ̃s; -dʒən sɪz; Fr. -ˈʒɑ̃sdili·gence

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1. diligence

   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, effort, exertion, industry, intentness, labor, pains, patience, perseverance, persistence, sedulousness

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

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1. diligence

   Synonyms:
   care, assiduity, attention, application, heed, industry

   Antonyms:
   indifference, carelessness, neglect, inattention, heedlessness, desultoriness, inertness, idleness

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1. diligencenoun

   conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation

   Synonyms:
   industriousness, industry, application

2. diligence, industriousness, industrynoun

   persevering determination to perform a task

   "his diligence won him quick promotions"; "frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues"

   Synonyms:
   industriousness, manufacture, industry, application

3. application, diligencenoun

   a diligent effort

   "it is a job requiring serious application"

   Synonyms:
   application, applications programme, practical application, industriousness, application program, covering, industry, coating, lotion

Matched Categories

1. • Conscientiousness
   • Determination
   • Effort

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1. diligencenoun

   Synonyms:
   assiduity (in some specific pursuit), assiduousness, activity, sedulousness, perseverance, INDUSTRY, steady application (to some pursuit that one likes)

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1. diligencenoun

   Synonyms:
   assiduity, sedulousness, sedulity, perseverance, stagecoach (France)

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1. List of paraphrases for "diligence":

   stagecoach, diligent, care, zeal, pre-audit, démarche, keenness

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1. Andrew Vaughan Winterbottom:

   The due diligence industry has seen a boom in business in recent years as new and unknown bidders emerge out of China, our clients are interested in identifying a bidder's source of funds, understanding whether they have links to the government, or are affiliated with larger state-run firms that have been investigated by Chinese anti-corruption authorities.

2. Abigail Adams:

   Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

3. Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams:

   I wish investigations could be handled instantly, but each one takes time and deserves the due diligence before we can discuss specific details.

4. Samuel Johnson:

   Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

5. Charles Kingsley:

   Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.