Synonyms for toughness
tough·ness

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1. stamina, staying power, toughnessnoun

   enduring strength and energy

   Synonyms:
   huskiness, staying power, ruggedness, stamina, temper, formidability

2. huskiness, ruggedness, toughnessnoun

   the property of being big and strong

   Synonyms:
   temper, gruffness, hardness, staying power, formidability, ruggedness, stamina, hoarseness, huskiness

3. temper, toughnessnoun

   the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking

   Synonyms:
   ruggedness, huskiness, irritability, surliness, biliousness, mood, stamina, peevishness, pique, humor, pettishness, staying power, temper, irritation, humour, formidability, snappishness

4. formidability, toughnessnoun

   impressive difficulty

   Synonyms:
   huskiness, staying power, ruggedness, stamina, temper, formidability

Matched Categories

1. • Difficulty
   • Elasticity
   • Endurance
   • Strength

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1. List of paraphrases for "toughness":

   hardness, tenacity, harshness, robustness, rigour, endurance

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1. Donald Trump:

   I have common sense. I know what has to be done, and we don't want to have a situation like Paris. And we don't want to have another World Trade Center, we don't want that. We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country or we're going to end up like a lot of the other places and we're not going to have a country left.

2. Barack Obama:

   As the first woman to serve as America's top diplomat, Madeleine's courage and toughness helped bring peace to the Balkans and paved the way for progress in some of the most unstable corners of the world.

3. David Njoku:

   Honestly, it is just mental toughness, there are going to be a lot of curve balls thrown at us, and we have seen that from start to finish the past couple of years. Every positive test is just an extra curve ball that we have to hit.

4. Timothy Naimi:

   This was a really big study. We looked at more than 500,000 crash deaths, for every 1 % increase in the toughness of state policies, there was a 1 % reduction of alcohol-related crashes.

5. Ludwik Liebler:

   We think that the first applications will be in transport, in cars, in planes, in all the applications you have that need toughness, for repair and increasing durability of your objects.