Adherence vs Perseverance - What's the difference?
adherence | perseverance |
A close physical union of two objects.
Faithful support for some cause.
(medicine) An extent to which a patient continues an agreed treatment plan.
Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
Persistent determination to adhere to a plan of direction; insistence.
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As nouns the difference between adherence and perseverance
is that adherence is a close physical union of two objects while perseverance is continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.adherence
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* (archaic)Noun
See also
* complianceperseverance
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* perseveraunce (archaic)Noun
(-)- 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.