Tenacious vs Tenacity - What's the difference?
tenacious | tenacity |
clinging to an object or surface; adhesive
unwilling to yield or give up; dogged
holding together; cohesive
having a good memory; retentive
The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
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The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; – as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, – usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
As an adjective tenacious
is clinging to an object or surface; adhesive.As a noun tenacity is
the quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.tenacious
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(tenacities)PHD Comics: Softball: younger and faster
- — Our opponents may be younger, faster and less out of shape than we are, but we have something they’ll never have!
- — Tenure?
- — Tenacity!