Endurance vs Perseverance - What's the difference?
endurance | perseverance |
The measure of a person's stamina or persistence.
Ability to endure hardship.
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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As nouns the difference between endurance and perseverance
is that endurance is the measure of a person's stamina or persistence while perseverance is continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.endurance
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* (all obsolete)Noun
- He has great endurance , he ran a marathon and then rode his bicycle home.
perseverance
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* 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.