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Enduring vs Persist - What's the difference?

enduring | persist |

As verbs the difference between enduring and persist

is that enduring is while persist is to go on stubbornly or resolutely.

As an adjective enduring

is long-lasting.

As a noun enduring

is endurance.

enduring

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Long-lasting.
  • an enduring belief in democracy

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • endurance
  • * 1854 , James Kennedy, Probable Origin of the American Indians (page 14)
  • It could be only long years of privations and endurings of hardships that could enable the Esquimaux to traverse over those icy regions with the facilities they have learned to practise

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    persist

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
  • To repeat an utterance.
  • To continue to exist.
  • (computing) To cause to persist; make permanent.
  • * 2006 , Marco Bellinaso, ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming
  • This would not be saved after his session terminates because we don't have an actual user identity to allow us to persist the settings.
  • * 2009 , Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring
  • While hashtags aren't formally part of Twitter, some clients, such as Tweetdeck, will persist hashtags across replies to create a sort of message threading.

    Synonyms

    * (go on stubbornly or resolutely) persevere, see also * (continue to exist) last, remain

    Derived terms

    * persistence / persistency * persistent

    See also

    (cognate terms using -sist) * absist * assist * consist * desist * exist * insist * resist * subsist

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