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Resistant vs Enduring - What's the difference?

resistant | enduring |

As nouns the difference between resistant and enduring

is that resistant is a person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement while enduring is endurance.

As adjectives the difference between resistant and enduring

is that resistant is which makes resistance or offers opposition while enduring is long-lasting.

As a verb enduring is

present participle of lang=en.

resistant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who resists; especially a member of a resistance movement.
  • A thing which resists.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Which makes resistance or offers opposition.
  • Which is not affected or overcome by a disease, drug, chemical or atmospheric agent, extreme of temperature, etc.
    • The infection is resistant to antibiotics.
  • (statistics) Not greatly influenced by individual members of a sample.

    • Derived terms

    * resistantly

    See also

    * robust

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    enduring

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Long-lasting.
    • an enduring belief in democracy

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • endurance
  • * 1854 , James Kennedy, Probable Origin of the American Indians (page 14)
    • It could be only long years of privations and endurings of hardships that could enable the Esquimaux to traverse over those icy regions with the facilities they have learned to practise

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