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Assertiveness vs Perseverance - What's the difference?

assertiveness | perseverance |

As nouns the difference between assertiveness and perseverance

is that assertiveness is the quality of being self-assured and assertive while perseverance is perseverance (persistent determination to adhere to a course of action; insistence).

assertiveness

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being self-assured and assertive.
  • perseverance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * perseveraunce (archaic)

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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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