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Puissance vs Durability - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between puissance and durability

is that puissance is power, might or potency while durability is permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force.

puissance

English

Noun

(-)
  • Power, might or potency.
  • *, II.12:
    • We easily pronounce puissance , truth and justice; they be words importing some great matter, but that thing we neither see nor conceive.
  • * 2006 , (Clive James), North Face of Soho , Picador 2007, p. 66:
    • Any impression of mental puissance might have been increased by the fact that I was usually to be seen working hard with notebook and biro, shaping up a new book review or a linking script.
  • The high-jump component of the sport of show jumping.

    • See also

    * pouvoir * puissant English abstract nouns ----

    durability

    English

    Noun

    (durabilities)
  • Permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force.