Antonyms for persistence
pərˈsɪs təns, -ˈzɪs-per·sis·tence

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.3 / 11 votes

1. persistence

   Industry is the quality, action, or habit of earnest, steady, and continued attention or devotion to any useful or productive work or task, manual or mental. Assiduity (Latin ad, to, and sedeo, sit), as the etymology suggests, sits down to a task until it is done. Diligence (Latin diligo, love, choose) invests more effort and exertion, with love of the work or deep interest in its accomplishment; application (Latin ad, to, and plico, fold) bends to its work and concentrates all one's powers upon it with utmost intensity; hence, application can hardly be as unremitting as assiduity. Constancy is a steady devotion of heart and principle. Patience works on in spite of annoyances; perseverance overcomes hindrances and difficulties; persistence strives relentlessly against opposition; persistence has very frequently an unfavorable meaning, implying that one persists in spite of considerations that should induce him to desist. Industry is diligence applied to some avocation, business, or profession. Labor and pains refer to the exertions of the worker and the tax upon him, while assiduity, perseverance, etc., refer to his continuance in the work.

   Antonyms:
   changeableness, fickleness, idleness, inattention, inconstancy, indolence, neglect, negligence, remissness, sloth

   Synonyms:
   application, assiduity, attention, constancy, diligence, effort, exertion, industry, intentness, labor, pains, patience, perseverance, sedulousness

Matched Categories

1. • Continuance
   • Determination
   • Lastingness

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. continuity, persistencenoun

   the property of a continuous and connected period of time

   Synonyms:
   perseverance, tenacity, persistency, perseveration, doggedness, pertinacity, tenaciousness, continuity

2. doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenacity, tenaciousness, pertinacitynoun

   persistent determination

   Synonyms:
   perseverance, tenacity, persistency, perseveration, doggedness, pertinacity, tenaciousness, continuity

3. perseverance, persistence, perseverationnoun

   the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior

   "his perseveration continued to the point where it was no longer appropriate"

   Synonyms:
   perseverance, tenacity, persistency, perseveration, doggedness, pertinacity, tenaciousness, continuity

How to use persistence in a sentence?

1. Matthew Dube (at weed thumb):

   If you want to be rich, never give up. When you have persistence, you will not only come out ahead of most people, more importantly, you will learn. Every time you do something, there is always a chance that you might fail. But that does not make you a failure. It’s because you had not learnt enough. Do it differently each time. One day, you will do it right. Failure should not deter you from trying.

2. Napolean Hill:

   Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

3. The Strasbourg-based court:

   The persistence of a situation of environmental pollution. endangered the health of the applicants and, more generally, that of the entire population living in the areas at risk, the national authorities had failed to take all the necessary measures to provide effective protection of the applicants right to respect for their private life.

4. unknown:

   The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

5. Orla Doyle:

   Parents with higher incomes typically have more desirable (traits) such as higher IQ, motivation, persistence, and consciousness.

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