Dictionary Definition
tenacity n : persistent determination [syn:
doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenaciousness, pertinacity]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
- That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
- That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
- 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.
Translations
the quality or state of being tenacious
- Finnish: sitkeys, sinnikkyys
that quality of bodies which keeps them from
parting without considerable force
- Finnish: sitkeys
that quality of bodies which makes them adhere
to other bodies
the greatest longitudinal stress a substance can
bear without tearing asunder
- Finnish: vetolujuus, vetomurtolujuus
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
adhesiveness, application, assiduity, assiduousness, balkiness, bigotry, bottling up, bulldog
courage, bulldog tenacity, bullheadedness, clabbering, clamminess, cling, clotting, coagulation, cohesiveness, colloidality, commitment, concentration, consistency, constancy, corking up,
curdling, decidedness, decision, decisiveness, dedication, definiteness, determinateness,
determination,
determinedness,
devotion, diligence, dogged
perseverance, doggedness, dogmatism, doughiness, durability, earnestness, endurance, engrossment, fanaticism, fidelity, firmness, fixed mind, fortitude, gameness, gaminess, gelatinity, gelatinousness, gluelikeness, gluiness, glutinosity, glutinousness, grit, grittiness, gumlikeness, gumminess, hardheadedness, hardihood, hardiness, hardness, headstrongness, heaviness, holding, holding in, incrassation, indefatigability,
industriousness,
industry, inflexibility, inflexible
will, infrangibility, inhibition, insistence, insistency, inspissation, intolerance, intransigence, jellification, jellylikeness, keeping, lastingness, leatherlikeness,
lentor, locking in,
loyalty, maintenance, mettlesomeness, mucilaginousness,
mulishness, nerviness, obduracy, obstinacy, obstinateness, opinionatedness,
overzealousness,
pastiness, patience, patience of Job,
permanence, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness,
pertinacity,
pigheadedness,
plodding, pluckiness, plugging, power, prehension, preoccupation, preservation, purpose, purposefulness, relentlessness, repression, resilience, resistance, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, resolvedness, restiveness, retainment, retention, retentiveness, retentivity, rigidity, ropiness, sand, sedulity, sedulousness, self-will,
seriousness,
sincerity,
single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slabbiness, sliminess, slogging, snugness, spissitude, spunkiness, stability, stamina, staunchness, staying power,
steadfastness,
steadiness,
stick-to-itiveness, stickiness, stiff neck,
stiff-neckedness, stiffness, stodginess, strength, stringiness, strongheadness, stubbornness, sulkiness, sullenness, suppression, syrupiness, tackiness, tenaciousness, thickening, thickness, tightness, tirelessness, total
commitment, toughness,
treacliness,
unbreakability,
unbreakableness,
uncompromisingness,
uncooperativeness,
unregenerateness,
unremittingness,
unswerving attention, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness, vitality, will, willfulness