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Firmness vs Perseverance - What's the difference?

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Firmness is a related term of perseverance.


As nouns the difference between firmness and perseverance

is that firmness is the state of being firm; strength; permanence; stability; hardness; resolution while perseverance is perseverance (persistent determination to adhere to a course of action; insistence).

firmness

English

Noun

  • The state of being firm; strength; permanence; stability; hardness; resolution.

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    perseverance

    English

    Alternative forms

    * perseveraunce (archaic)

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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
    • 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.

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    Related terms

    * persevere * perseverant