tenacity
11tenacity — Synonyms and related words: adhesiveness, application, assiduity, assiduousness, balkiness, bigotry, bottling up, bulldog courage, bulldog tenacity, bullheadedness, clabbering, clamminess, cling, clotting, coagulation, cohesiveness, colloidality …
12tenacity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Persistence Nouns tenacity, cohesion, coherence; holding, strength; viscidity, viscosity; pertinacity, perseverance, persistence, resolution, patience; obstinacy, resistance, constancy, retention.… …
13tenacity — noun she practices her gymnastics routine with the tenacity of a bulldog Syn: persistence, determination, perseverance, doggedness, strength of purpose, tirelessness, indefatigability, resolution, resoluteness, resolve, firmness, patience,… …
14tenacity — tenacious ► ADJECTIVE 1) holding firmly to something. 2) persisting in existence or in a course of action. DERIVATIVES tenaciously adverb tenacity noun. ORIGIN from Latin tenere to hold …
15tenacity — noun Date: 15th century the quality or state of being tenacious Synonyms: see courage …
16tenacity — /teuh nas i tee/, n. the quality or property of being tenacious. [1520 30; < L tenacitas equiv. to tenac (s. of tenax) holding fast, deriv. of tenere to hold + itas ITY2] Syn. See perseverance. * * * …
17tenacity — Adhesiveness; the character or property of holding fast. [L. tenacitas, fr. teneo, to hold] cellular t. the inherent property of all cells to persist in a given form or direction of activity …
18tenacity — te|nac|i|ty [ tə næsəti ] noun uncount tenacious behavior …
19tenacity — n. clutching, grasping; stubbornness …
20tenacity — n. 1. Retentiveness, tenaciousness. 2. Adhesiveness, cohesiveness, glutinousness, viscidity, toughness. 3. Stubbornness, pertinacity, obstinacy, firmness, persistency …
