perseverance

See also: persévérance

English

Alternative forms

• perseveraunce (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English perseveraunce, from Old French perseverance, from Latin persevērantia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpɜːsəˈvɪəɹəns/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpɝsəˈvɪɹəns/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹəns
• Hyphenation: per‧se‧ve‧rance

Noun

perseverance (usually uncountable, plural perseverances)

1. Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:perseverance

   • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:

     It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

Derived terms

• belief perseverance
• final perseverance
• Mount Perseverance
• perseverance of the saints

Related terms

• persevere
• perseverant
• perseverate
• perseveration

Translations

persistent determination to adhere to a course of action; insistence

Arabic: مُثَابَرَة f (muṯābara) Azerbaijani: əzmkarlıq, mətanət (az), qətiyyətlilik Belarusian: насто́йлівасць f (nastójlivascʹ), упа́ртасць f (upártascʹ), сто́йкасць f (stójkascʹ) Bulgarian: постоянство (bg) n (postojanstvo), настойчивост (bg) f (nastojčivost) Catalan: perseverança f Chinese: Mandarin: 恆心 / 恒心 (zh) (héngxīn), 毅力 (zh) (yìlì) Czech: vytrvalost (cs) f, úpornost f Dutch: volharding (nl) f, vasthoudendheid (nl) f, doorzettingsvermogen (nl) n Esperanto: persisto Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: hellittämättömyys (fi), periksiantamattomuus, sinnikkyys (fi), itsepintaisuus (fi), peräänantamattomuus (fi), määrätietoisuus (fi), sitkeys (fi) French: persévérance (fr) f Galician: perseveranza f Georgian: შეუპოვრობა (šeuṗovroba) German: Beharrlichkeit (de) f, Ausdauer (de) f, Durchhaltevermögen (de) n Greek: επιμονή (el) f (epimoní) Hungarian: állhatatosság (hu), kitartás (hu) Icelandic: þrautseigja f, þolgæði n, harðfylgi (is) n Irish: buanseasmhacht f, buanseasamh m Italian: perseveranza (it) f Japanese: 忍耐 (ja) (にんたい, nintai) Kapampangan: kapibabatan, kapipabatan Kazakh: қажырлылық (qajyrlylyq) Khmer: ភាពខ្ជាប់ខ្ជួន (phiəp khcŏəp khcuən), ការព្យាយាម (kaa pyiəyiəm) Korean: 끈기 (kkeun'gi), 인내 (ko) (innae) Latin: persevērantia f Macedonian: упорност f (upornost), настојчивост f (nastojčivost) Maori: hiringa, hohotatanga, manawanui Norwegian: Bokmål: utholdenhet (no) m or f Nynorsk: tæl m or n Persian: پشتکار (fa) Polish: wytrwałość (pl) Portuguese: perseverança (pt) f Romanian: perseverență (ro) f, stăruință (ro) f Russian: упо́рство (ru) n (upórstvo), насто́йчивость (ru) f (nastójčivostʹ), сто́йкость (ru) f (stójkostʹ), уси́дчивость (ru) f (usídčivostʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: upornost (sh) f Slovak: vytrvalosť f, úpornosť f Spanish: perseverancia (es) f Swedish: ihärdighet (sv) c Telugu: పట్టుదల (te) (paṭṭudala) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: azim (tr), tahammül (tr), sabır (tr) Ukrainian: завзя́ття n (zavzjáttja), насті́йність f (nastíjnistʹ), насті́йливість f (nastíjlyvistʹ), сті́йкість f (stíjkistʹ)

References

• “perseverance”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French perseverance.

Noun

perseverance f (uncountable)

1. perseverance