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Persistence vs Constantly - What's the difference?

persistence | constantly |

As a noun persistence

is the property of being persistent.

As an adverb constantly is

with steadfastness; with resolve; in loyalty, faithfully.

persistence

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The property of being persistent.
  • You've got to admire his persistence . He's asked her out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
  • (computer science) Of data, continuing to exist after the execution of the program.
  • Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence : it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
  • (meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).
  • Synonyms

    * persistency * See also * See also

    constantly

    English

    Alternative forms

    * constantlie * constauntly

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic) With steadfastness; with resolve; in loyalty, faithfully.
  • * , I.iv.1:
  • Agrippa and the rest of his weeping friends earnestly besought himnot to offer violence unto himself, ‘with a settled resolution he desired again they would approve of his good intent, and not seek to dehort him from it’; and so constantly died.
  • In a constant manner; occurring continuously; persistently.
  • (frequency) Recurring regularly.
  • I find that I am constantly reminding you to feed your pets.
  • In an unchangeable or invariable manner; in every case.