Continuance vs Perseverance - What's the difference?
continuance | perseverance | Synonyms |
(uncountable) The action of continuing.
(countable, legal) An order issued by a court granting a postponement of a legal proceeding for a set period.
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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Continuance is a synonym of perseverance.
As nouns the difference between continuance and perseverance
is that continuance is (uncountable) the action of continuing while perseverance is perseverance (persistent determination to adhere to a course of action; insistence).continuance
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Alternative forms
* continuaunceNoun
Antonyms
* discontinuanceperseverance
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Alternative forms
* 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.