Perseverance vs Conscientious - What's the difference?
perseverance | conscientious |
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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Thorough, careful, or vigilant; implies a desire to do a task well.
As a noun perseverance
is continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.As an adjective conscientious is
thorough, careful, or vigilant; implies a desire to do a task well.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.
Synonyms
* See alsoconscientious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He was a thoughtful and conscientious worker.