Synonyms 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.

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

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

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Continuance
   • Determination
   • Lastingness

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. persistencenoun

   Synonyms:
   PERSEVERANCE

2. persistencenoun

   Synonyms:
   obstinacy, contumacy, doggedness, stubbornness, perverseness, pertinacity, obduracy, headiness, pig-headedness

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1. List of paraphrases for "persistence":

   perseverance, tenacity, persistent, persisting, continuation, persistency, continuing, insistence, perpetuation, stubbornness, continued, persistently, obstinacy, stamina, permanence, steadfastness

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1. Martin Eyears:

   It was persistence and timing, the right place at the right time that produced the sale, and a very realistic offer.

2. Susan Saliba:

   The persistence of symptoms clearly is the most significant factor in academic impact.

3. Dieter Wolke:

   Persistence of a problem usually indicates a chronic problem and these have been shown in other research to have higher persistence into adolescence.

4. Calvin Coolidge:

   Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

5. Napoleon Hill:

   The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.