persistence

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: per=sis=tence
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

persistence, n. [See Persistent.].

•  The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.  [1913 Webster]
•  The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is removed  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

persistence

abidingness, accordance, adhesiveness, age, antiquity, application, assiduity, assiduousness, bulldog tenacity, bullheadedness, calm, changelessness, cohesiveness, commitment, concentration, consistency, consonance, constancy, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, correspondence, course, decidedness, decision, decisiveness, dedication, defeat of time, defiance of time, definiteness, demandingness, determinateness, determination, determinedness, devotion, diligence, diuturnity, dogged perseverance, doggedness, durability, durableness, duration, earnestness, endurance, engrossment, equability, equanimity, equilibrium, evenness, exigency, extension, fidelity, firmness, fixedness, frozenness, gluiness, glutinosity, grit, gumminess, hardening, homogeneity, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, importunacy, importunateness, importunity, indefatigability, industriousness, industry, insistence, insistency, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, lastingness, lengthening, long standing, long-lastingness, long-livedness, longevity, loyalty, maintenance, monolithism, obduracy, obstinacy, patience, patience of Job, perdurability, perennation, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, perpetuation, perpetuity, perseverance, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plodding, pluck, plugging, preoccupation, pressingness, pressure, progress, progression, prolongation, protraction, purpose, purposefulness, pursuance, quiescence, relentlessness, repetition, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, resolvedness, retention, rigidity, run, sedulity, sedulousness, self-will, seriousness, sincerity, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slogging, snugness, solidity, stability, stamina, standing, stasis, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, stick-to-itiveness, stickiness, straight course, stubbornness, survival, survivance, sustained action, sustenance, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, tightness, tirelessness, torpor, total commitment, toughness, unchangeability, unchangingness, uniformity, uninterrupted course, unity, unremittingness, unruffledness, unswerving attention, urgency, viscidity, viscosity, way, will

ROGET THESAURUS

persistence

Perseverance

N perseverance, continuance, permanence, firmness, constancy, steadiness, singleness of purpose, tenacity of purpose, persistence, plodding, patience, sedulity, pertinacy, pertinacity, pertinaciousness, iteration, bottom, game, pluck, stamina, backbone, grit, indefatigability, indefatigableness, bulldog courage, persevering, constant, steady, steadfast, undeviating, unwavering, unfaltering, unswerving, unflinching, unsleeping, unflagging, undrooping, steady as time, unrelenting, unintermitting, unremitting, plodding, industrious, strenuous, pertinacious, persisting, persistent, solid, sturdy, staunch, stanch, true to oneself, unchangeable, unconquerable, indomitable, game to the last, indefatigable, untiring, unwearied, never tiring, through evil report and good report, through thick and thin, through fire and water, per fas et nefas, without fail, sink or swim, at any price, vogue la galere, never say die, give it the old college try, vestigia nulla retrorsum, aut vincer aut mori, la garde meurt et ne se rend pas, tout vient a temps pour qui sait attendre.

Diuturnity

N diuturnity, a long time, a length of time, an age, a century, an eternity, slowness, perpetuity, blue moon, coon's age, dog's age, durableness, durability, persistence, endlessness, lastingness, continuance, standing, permanence, survival, survivance, longevity, distance of time, protraction of time, prolongation of time, extension of time, delay, durable, lasting, of long duration, of long-standing, permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing, intransient, intransitive, intransmutable, persistent, lifelong, livelong, longeval, long-lived, macrobiotic, diuturnal, evergreen, perennial, sempervirent, sempervirid, unrelenting, unintermitting, unremitting, perpetual, lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out, long-pending, long-winded, slow, long, for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long, for many a long day, long ago, longo intervallo, all the day long, all the year round, the livelong day, as the day is long, morning noon and night, hour after hour, day after day, for good, permanently.

Permanence

N permanence, stability, quiescence, obstinacy, permanence, persistence, endurance, durability, standing, status quo, maintenance, preservation, conservation, conservation, law of the Medes and Persians, standing dish, stable, persisting, permanent, established, unchanged &c (change), renewed, intact, inviolate, persistent, monotonous, uncheckered, unfailing, undestroyed, unrepealed, unsuppressed, conservative, qualis ab incepto, prescriptive, stationary, in statu quo, for good, finally, at a stand, at a standstill, uti possidetis, without a shadow of turning, esto perpetua, nolumus leges Angliae mutari, j'y suis et j'y ereste.

Continuance in action

N continuance in action, continuance, continuation, run, perpetuation, prolongation, persistence, repetition, continuing, uninterrupted, unintermitting, unvarying, unshifting, unreversed, unstopped, unrevoked, unvaried, sustained, undying, inconvertible, Int, keep it up!, go to it!, right away!, right on!, attaboy!, nolumus leges Angliae mutari, vestigia nulla retrorsum, labitur et albetur.