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Patience vs Perseverance - What's the difference?

patience | perseverance |

As nouns the difference between patience and perseverance

is that patience is the quality of being patient while perseverance is continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.

As a proper noun Patience

is {{given name|female|from=English}}.

patience

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being patient.
  • Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US. (card game).

    • Related terms

    * passion * passionate * passive * passivity * patient

    Antonyms

    * impatience

    External links

    * *

    See also

    *garden patience ----

    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.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * persevere * perseverant