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Industrious vs Assiduity - What's the difference?

industrious | assiduity |

As an adjective industrious

is hard-working and persistent; worksome.

As a noun assiduity is

great and persistent toil or effort.

industrious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Hard-working and persistent; worksome.
    • I was very industrious in my effort to learn unicycle riding.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * industriousness

    Related terms

    * industrial * industry

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    assiduity

    English

    Noun

    (assiduities)
  • Great and persistent toil or effort.
  • * 1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
    • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
  • (in the plural) Constant personal attention, solicitous care.
  • * 1559 , translated by (1521)
    • With difficulty could man be born into the world, or as soon as born would he die, leaving life at the very threshold of existence, unless the friendly hand of the careful matron, and the affectionate assiduities of the nurse, lent their aid to the helpless babe.
  • * 1773 , (Oliver Goldsmith),
    • I will stay even contrary to your wishes; and though you should persist to shun me, I will make my respectful assiduities atone for the levity of my past conduct.