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Perseverance vs Excellence - What's the difference?

perseverance | excellence |

As nouns the difference between perseverance and excellence

is that perseverance is continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure while excellence is the quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.

As a proper noun Excellence is

a title of honor or respect; more common in the form Excellency.

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

    excellence

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
  • Something in which one excels.
  • An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.
  • Synonyms

    * superiority * pre-eminence * perfection * worth * goodness * purity * greatness

    See also

    * par excellence ----