Tenacity vs Guts - What's the difference?
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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.
The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
(slang) Courage; determination.
:* It must have taken some guts to speak in front that audience.
:* She doesn't take any nonsense from anyone—she's got guts .
(slang) Content, substance.
:* His speech had no guts in it.
(informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out ).
As nouns the difference between tenacity and guts
is that tenacity is the quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose while guts is plural of lang=en.As a verb guts is
to show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).tenacity
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Noun
(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!
Synonyms
* (state of being tenacious) retentiveness, persistency * (quality keeping bodies together) cohesiveness * (quality making bodies adhere) adhesiveness, viscosityAntonyms
* (quality keeping bodies together) brittleness, fragility, mobilityguts
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(wikipedia guts)Noun
(head)Synonyms
* (entrails) entrails, guttings, innards, insides, viscera * (courage) balls, nerve, pluck, big ballsVerb
(es)- He gutsed out a 6-1 win.