endurance

endurance
n
1. perseverance, tolerance, toleration, maintenance, sufferance, sustainment, abidingness; forbearance, acceptance, long-suffering, patience, stoicism, resignation; dispassion, composure, equanimity, even temper, sang-froid; stamina, hardihood, backbone, pluck, mettle, spunk, Sl. guts.
2. duration, continuance, lastingness, permanence, durability, durableness; persistence, perseverance, continuing power, Inf. stick-to-it-iveness; soundness, solidity, stability, fixedness, changelessness, immutability, immovableness.
3. trial, hardship, trouble, tribulation, distress; calamity, misfortune, torment, ordeal.

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  • Endurance — En*dur ance, n. [Cf. OF. endurance. See {Endure}.] 1. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance. [1913 Webster] Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • endurance — [n1] bearing hardship; staying power ability, allowance, backbone, bearing, capacity, continuing, cool, coolness, courage, enduring, forebearance, fortitude, grit, guts, gutsiness, heart*, holding up*, intestinal fortitude, mettle, moxie*,… …   New thesaurus

  • endurance — index continuance, diligence (perseverance), force (strength), indestructibility, industry (activity) …   Law dictionary

  • endurance — late 15c., continued existence in time; see ENDURE (Cf. endure) + ANCE (Cf. ance). Meaning ability to endure suffering, etc. is from 1660s …   Etymology dictionary

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  • endurance — [en door′əns, endyoor′əns; indoor′əns, indyoor′əns] n. 1. the act of enduring 2. the power of enduring; specif., a) ability to last, continue, or remain b) ability to stand pain, distress, fatigue, etc.; fortitude 3. duration 4. Rare that which… …   English World dictionary

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