perseverance
nounUK /ˌpɜːsəˈvɪəɹəns/ · US /ˌpɝsəˈvɪɹəns/
Etymology From Middle English perseveraunce, from Old French perseverance, from Latin persevērantia.
1
Usually Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
- It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
- Synonyms
- perseverance, persistence, sticktoitiveness, steadfastness
- Related terms
- persevere, perseverant, perseverate, perseveration, constancy, determination, firmness, fortitude, indefatigability, moxie, patience, permanence, resoluteness, obstinacy