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Durability vs Persistence - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between durability and persistence

is that durability is permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force while persistence is the property of being persistent.

durability

English

Noun

(durabilities)
  • Permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force.

    • persistence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The property of being persistent.
    • You've got to admire his persistence . He's asked her out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
  • (computer science) Of data, continuing to exist after the execution of the program.
    • Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence : it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
  • (meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).

    • Synonyms

    * persistency * See also * See also