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Puissance vs Sturdiness - What's the difference?

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Puissance is a related term of sturdiness.


As nouns the difference between puissance and sturdiness

is that puissance is power, might or potency while sturdiness is the state or quality of being sturdy.

puissance

English

Noun

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  • 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 ----

    sturdiness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being sturdy.