tenacity
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From tenac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French ténacité, from Latin tenācitās.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /təˈnæs.ɪ.ti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /təˈnæsəti/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: tena‧city
Noun
[edit]tenacity (countable and uncountable, plural tenacities)
- The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.
- 2009, Jorge Cham, PHD Comics: Softball: younger and faster[1]:
- — Our opponents may be younger, faster and less out of shape than we are, but we have something they’ll never have!
— Tenure?
— Tenacity!
- The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
- The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.
- The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.
- (physics) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
Synonyms
[edit]- (state of being tenacious): tenaciousness, determination, persistency, retentiveness, stubbornness
- (quality keeping bodies together): cohesiveness
- (quality making bodies adhere): adhesiveness, viscosity
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “quality keeping bodies together”): brittleness, fragility, mobility
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]quality or state of being tenacious
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quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force
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quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies
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greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder
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