Equanimity vs Perseverance - What's the difference?
equanimity | perseverance |
the state of being calm, stable and composed, especially under stress
* 1954 , Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions
Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
Persistent determination to adhere to a plan of direction; insistence.
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
As nouns the difference between equanimity and perseverance
is that equanimity is the state of being calm, stable and composed, especially under stress while perseverance is continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.equanimity
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* (archaic)Noun
- Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment.
Synonyms
* composure * calmness * even-mindedness * See alsoperseverance
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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.
