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Durability vs Pertinacity - What's the difference?

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Durability is a related term of pertinacity.


As nouns the difference between durability and pertinacity

is that durability is permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force while pertinacity is the state or characteristic of being pertinacious.

durability

English

Noun

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

    • pertinacity

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * pertinaciousness, resolve, stubbornness, tenacity

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