tenacity
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French ténacité, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tenācitās.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: tena‧city
Noun
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:
- — Our opponents may be younger, faster and less out of shape than we are, but we have something they’ll never have!
- — Tenure?
- — Tenacity!
- 2009, Jorge Cham, PHD Comics: Softball: younger and faster:
- 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
- (state of being tenacious): tenaciousness, determination, persistency, retentiveness, stubbornness
- (quality keeping bodies together): cohesiveness
- (quality making bodies adhere): adhesiveness, viscosity
Antonyms
- (quality keeping bodies together): brittleness, fragility, mobility
Related terms
Translations
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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