Constancy vs Pertinacity - What's the difference?
constancy | pertinacity | Related terms |
(uncountable) The quality of being constant; steadiness or faithfulness in action, affections, purpose, etc.
* 1871 , , Descent of Man , ch. 7 "On the Races of Man,"
(countable) An unchanging quality or characteristic of a person or thing.
* 1602 , , All's Well That Ends Well , act 1, sc. 2,
The state or characteristic of being pertinacious.
*1846 , E.A.Poe,
*:With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase. It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend.
*1851 , , The House of Seven Gables , ch. 19:
*:Again and again, however, and half a dozen other agains, with the inexorable pertinacity of a child intent upon some object important to itself, did he renew his efforts for admittance.
Constancy is a related term of pertinacity.
As nouns the difference between constancy and pertinacity
is that constancy is (uncountable) the quality of being constant; steadiness or faithfulness in action, affections, purpose, etc while pertinacity is the state or characteristic of being pertinacious.constancy
English
Noun
(constancies)- Constancy of character is what is chiefly valued and sought for by naturalists.
- younger spirits . . .
- whose constancies
- Expire before their fashions.