Perseverance vs Resilient - What's the difference?
perseverance | resilient |
Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
Persistent determination to adhere to a plan of direction; insistence.
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
Able to endure tribulation without cracking.
* 1994 , Michael Grumley, The Last Diary :
As a noun perseverance
is continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.As an adjective resilient is
able to endure tribulation without cracking.perseverance
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Alternative forms
* perseveraunce (archaic)Noun
(-)- It had taken nine years from the evening that first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
Synonyms
* See alsoresilient
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He’s resilient , and strong, but sometimes tonight, here, the weight of what he’s saying makes him stop, pause as if lost.