perseverance

See also: persévérance

English

Alternative forms

• perseveraunce (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French perseverance, from Latin perseverantia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɜː(ɹ)səˈvɪəɹəns/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹəns

Noun

perseverance (usually uncountable, plural perseverances)

1. Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
   • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

     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.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:perseverance

Related terms

• persevere
• perseverance of the saints
• perseverant

Translations

persistent determination to adhere to a course of action; insistence

• Arabic: مُثَابَرَة f (muṯābara)
• Belarusian: насто́йлівасць f (nastójlivascʹ), упа́ртасць f (upártascʹ), сто́йкасць f (stójkascʹ)
• Catalan: perseverança f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 恆心／恒心 (zh) (héngxīn), 恒心 (zh) (héngxīn), 毅力 (zh) (yìlì)

• Czech: vytrvalost (cs) f, úpornost f
• Dutch: volharding (nl) f, vasthoudendheid (nl) f
• Finnish: hellittämättömyys (fi), itsepintaisuus (fi), peräänantamattomuus (fi), määrätietoisuus (fi)
• French: persévérance (fr) f
• Galician: perseveranza f
• Georgian: შეუპოვრობა (šeuṗovroba)
• German: Beharrlichkeit (de) f, Ausdauer (de) f, Durchhaltevermögen (de) n
• Hungarian: állhatatosság (hu), kitartás (hu)
• Icelandic: þrautseigja f, þolgæði n, harðfylgi (is) n
• Irish: buanseasmhacht f, buanseasamh m
• Italian: perseveranza (it) f
• Japanese: 忍耐 (ja) (にんたい, nintai)
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• Khmer: ស្មារតីលះបង់ (smaardəy leah bɑng)
• Korean: 끈기 (kkeun'gi), 인내 (ko) (innae)
• Maori: hiringa, hohotatanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utholdenhet (no) m or f

• Polish: wytrwałość (pl)
• Portuguese: perseverança (pt) f
• Romanian: perseverență (ro) f, stăruință (ro) f
• Russian: упо́рство (ru) n (upórstvo), насто́йчивость (ru) f (nastójčivostʹ), сто́йкость (ru) f (stójkostʹ), уси́дчивость (ru) f (usídčivostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: upornost (sh) f

• Spanish: perseverancia (es) f
• Swedish: ihärdighet (sv) c
• Telugu: పట్టుదల (te) (paṭṭudala)
• Turkish: azim (tr), tahammül (tr), sabır (tr)
• Ukrainian: завзя́ття n (zavzjáttja), насті́йність f (nastíjnistʹ), насті́йливість f (nastíjlyvistʹ), сті́йкість f (stíjkistʹ)

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French perseverance

Noun

perseverance f (uncountable)

1. perseverance