Industrious vs Perseverance - What's the difference?
industrious | perseverance |
Hard-working and persistent; worksome.
Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
Persistent determination to adhere to a plan of direction; insistence.
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As an adjective industrious
is hard-working and persistent; worksome.As a noun perseverance is
perseverance (persistent determination to adhere to a course of action; insistence).industrious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- I was very industrious in my effort to learn unicycle riding.
Synonyms
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* * *perseverance
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Alternative forms
* 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.