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Pertinacity vs Stability - What's the difference?

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Pertinacity is a related term of stability.


As nouns the difference between pertinacity and stability

is that pertinacity is the state or characteristic of being pertinacious while stability is the condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.

pertinacity

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * pertinaciousness, resolve, stubbornness, tenacity

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    stability

    English

    Noun

  • The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change
  • The tendency to recover from perturbations