perseverance

See also persévérance

English

Alternative forms

• perseveraunce (archaic)

Noun

perseverance (uncountable)

1. Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
2. Persistent determination to adhere to a plan of direction; insistence.
   • 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

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Related terms

• persevere
• perseverant

Translations

persistent determination to adhere to a course of action; insistence

• Arabic: مثابرة (ar) (muθābara) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 恆心 (cmn), 恒心 (cmn) (héngxīn), 毅力 (cmn) (yìlì)

• Dutch: volharding (nl) f, vasthoudendheid (nl) f
• Finnish: hellittämättömyys (fi), itsepintaisuus (fi), peräänantamattomuus (fi), määrätietoisuus (fi)
• French: persévérance (fr) f
• German: Beharrlichkeit (de) f, Ausdauer (de) f
• Hungarian: állhatatosság (hu), kitartás (hu)
• Icelandic: þrautseigja (is) f, þolgæði (is) n, harðfylgi (is) n
• Irish: buanseasmhacht (ga) f
• Italian: perseveranza (it) f

• Japanese: 忍耐 (ja) (にんたい, nintai)
• Khmer: ស្មារតីលះបង់ (km) (smaardəy leah bɑng)
• Korean: 인내 (ko) (innae)
• Portuguese: perseverança (pt) f
• Romanian: perseverență (ro) f
• Russian: упорство (ru) (upórstvo) n, настойчивость (ru) (nastójčivost') f
• Serbo-Croatian: upornost (sh)
• Spanish: perseverancia (es) f
• Swedish: ihärdighet (sv) c
• Telugu: పట్టుదల (te) (paTTudala)
• Turkish: azim (tr), tahammül (tr), sabır (tr)

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Middle French

Noun

perseverance f (uncountable)

1. perseverance