As nouns the difference between tenacity and hardiness
is that
tenacity is the quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose while
hardiness is the state of being hardy, especially (of a plant) of being resistant to cold or other environmental conditions.
tenacity English
Noun
( tenacities)
The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
* 2009 , , PHD Comics: Softball: younger and faster
- — Our opponents may be younger, faster and less out of shape than we are, but we have something they’ll never have!
- — Tenure?
- — Tenacity!
The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; – as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, – usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
Synonyms
* (state of being tenacious) retentiveness, persistency
* (quality keeping bodies together) cohesiveness
* (quality making bodies adhere) adhesiveness, viscosity
Antonyms
* (quality keeping bodies together) brittleness, fragility, mobility
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hardiness English
Noun
The state of being hardy, especially (of a plant) of being resistant to cold or other environmental conditions.
(obsolete) hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance
* Shakespeare, Cymbeline
- Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever / Of hardiness is mother.
* Clarendon
- They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king.
(obsolete) hardship; fatigue
- (Spenser)
See also
* hardness
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