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Maintaining vs Enduring - What's the difference?

maintaining | enduring |

As nouns the difference between maintaining and enduring

is that maintaining is the act of doing maintenance while enduring is endurance.

As verbs the difference between maintaining and enduring

is that maintaining is while enduring is .

As an adjective enduring is

long-lasting.

maintaining

English

Noun

(-)
  • The act of doing maintenance.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • enduring

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Long-lasting.
    • an enduring belief in democracy

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • endurance
  • * 1854 , James Kennedy, Probable Origin of the American Indians (page 14)
    • It could be only long years of privations and endurings of hardships that could enable the Esquimaux to traverse over those icy regions with the facilities they have learned to practise

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