Tenacity vs Hardiness - 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 state of being hardy, especially (of a plant) of being resistant to cold or other environmental conditions.
(obsolete) hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance
* Shakespeare, Cymbeline
* Clarendon
(obsolete) hardship; fatigue
As nouns the difference between tenacity and hardiness
is that tenacity is the quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose while hardiness is the state of being hardy, especially (of a plant) of being resistant to cold or other environmental conditions.tenacity
English
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, mobilityhardiness
English
Noun
- Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever / Of hardiness is mother.
- They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king.
- (Spenser)