tenacity
- (countable, uncountable) The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.
- (countable, uncountable) The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
- (countable, uncountable) The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.
- (countable, uncountable) The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.
- (countable, uncountable) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/təˈnæs.ɪ.ti/
Etymology
From tenac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French ténacité, from Latin tenācitās.
perseverence
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Zähigkeit
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