toughness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tough=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

toughness, n. 

 The quality or state of being tough.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

toughness

Spartanism, abstruseness, adamantness, adhesiveness, arduousness, astringency, austerity, authoritarianism, backbone, body, bothersomeness, bottom, bullheadedness, burdensomeness, callosity, callousness, chutzpah, clabbering, clamminess, clotting, coagulation, cohesiveness, colloidality, complexity, complication, concreteness, consistency, courage, curdling, decisiveness, demandingness, density, difficultness, difficulty, discipline, doughiness, dourness, durability, durity, endurance, energy, exactingness, firmness, flintiness, force, fortitude, gameness, gelatinity, gelatinousness, gluelikeness, gluiness, glutinosity, glutinousness, grimness, grit, gumlikeness, gumminess, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, hairiness, hard-bittenness, hard-nosedness, hardiness, hardness, hardness of heart, harshness, heart, heart of oak, heartiness, heaviness, immovability, immutability, impenetrability, implacability, impliability, incrassation, induration, inelasticity, inexorability, inflexibility, inspissation, intestinal fortitude, intransigeance, intransigence, intransigency, intransigentism, intricacy, irreconcilability, jellification, jellylikeness, laboriousness, lentor, lustihood, lustiness, mass, materiality, meticulousness, mettle, mettlesomeness, might, mightiness, moxie, mucilaginousness, nerve, obduracy, obstinacy, onerousness, oppressiveness, palpability, pastiness, persistence, persistency, pith, pluck, pluckiness, ponderability, potency, power, powerfulness, regimentation, relentlessness, resistance, restiveness, retention, rigid discipline, rigidity, rigor, rigorism, rigorousness, robustness, ropiness, ruggedness, severity, slabbiness, sliminess, snugness, solidity, soundness, spirit, spissitude, spunk, spunkiness, stability, stalwartness, stamina, staying power, steadiness, steeliness, sternness, stick-to-itiveness, stickiness, sticking power, stiff temper, stiffness, stodginess, stoniness, stout heart, stoutness, strength, strength of will, strenuousness, strictness, stringency, stringiness, stubbornness, sturdiness, substance, substantiality, substantialness, syrupiness, tackiness, tangibility, tenaciousness, tenacity, thickening, thickness, tightness, toilsomeness, treacliness, troublesomeness, true grit, unalterability, unbendingness, unchangeability, uncompromisingness, ungivingness, unrelentingness, unyieldingness, vigor, vigorousness, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness, vitality

ROGET THESAURUS

toughness

Coherence

N coherence, adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness, concretion accretion, conglutination, agglutination, agglomeration, aggregation, consolidation, set, cementation, sticking, soldering, connection, dependence, tenacity, toughness, stickiness, inseparability, inseparableness, bur, remora, conglomerate, concrete, cohesive, adhesive, adhering, cohering, tenacious, tough, sticky, united, unseparated, unsessile, inseparable, inextricable, infrangible, compact.

Tenacity

N tenacity, toughness, strength, (cohesion), grip, grasp, stickiness, (cohesion), sequacity, stubbornness (obstinacy), glue, cement, glutinousness, sequaciousness, viscidity, (semiliquidity), leather, white leather, whitleather, gristle, cartilage, unbreakability, tensile strength, tenacious, tough, strong, resisting, sequacious, stringy, gristly cartilaginous, leathery, coriaceous, tough as whitleather, stubborn, unbreakable, indivisible, atomic.