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Perseverance vs Willpower - What's the difference?

perseverance | willpower |

As nouns the difference between perseverance and willpower

is that perseverance is perseverance (persistent determination to adhere to a course of action; insistence) while willpower is the unwavering strength of will to carry out one’s wishes.

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

    willpower

    Alternative forms

    * will power

    Noun

    (-)
  • The unwavering strength of will to carry out one’s wishes.
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  • See also

    * self-control