Pertinacity vs Patience - What's the difference?
pertinacity | patience |
The state or characteristic of being pertinacious.
*1846 , E.A.Poe,
*:With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase. It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend.
*1851 , , The House of Seven Gables , ch. 19:
*:Again and again, however, and half a dozen other agains, with the inexorable pertinacity of a child intent upon some object important to itself, did he renew his efforts for admittance.
The quality of being patient.
Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US. (card game).
