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Perseverance vs Adaptability - What's the difference?

perseverance | adaptability |

As nouns the difference between perseverance and adaptability

is that perseverance is continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure while adaptability is the quality of being adaptable; a quality that renders adaptable.

perseverance

English

Alternative forms

* perseveraunce (archaic)

Noun

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  • Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
  • Persistent determination to adhere to a plan of direction; insistence.
  • * 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
    • It had taken nine years from the evening that 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.

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    Related terms

    * persevere * perseverant

    adaptability

    English

    Noun

  • The quality of being adaptable; a quality that renders adaptable.
  • (biology) Variability in respect to, or under the influence of, external conditions; susceptibility of an organism to that variation whereby it becomes suited to or fitted for its conditions of environment; the capacity of an organism to be modified by circumstances.

    • Related terms

    * adapt * adaptable * adaptableness * adaptably * adaptation * adaptational * adaptative * adaptatively * adaptativeness * adaptedness * adapter * adaption * adaptional * adaptitude * adaptive * adaptively * adaptiveness * adaptly * adaptness * adaptorial

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