Pertinacity vs Tenacious - What's the difference?
pertinacity | tenacious |
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.
clinging to an object or surface; adhesive
unwilling to yield or give up; dogged
holding together; cohesive
having a good memory; retentive