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Perseverance vs Irresolution - What's the difference?

perseverance | irresolution |

As nouns the difference between perseverance and irresolution

is that perseverance is perseverance (persistent determination to adhere to a course of action; insistence) while irresolution is irresoluteness, irresolution; indecision, wavering.

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.

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    Related terms

    * persevere * perseverant

    irresolution

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Lack of resolution; lack of decision or purpose; vacillation.
  • * 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 238:
    • Again he paced the chamber; but an involuntary movement of awe and inquietude constantly led his eye towards the alcove. He drew near it with irresolution .

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