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Tenancy vs Tenacity - What's the difference?

tenancy | tenacity |

As nouns the difference between tenancy and tenacity

is that tenancy is the occupancy of property etc, under a lease, or by paying rent while tenacity is the quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.

tenancy

English

Noun

(tenancies)
  • The occupancy of property etc, under a lease, or by paying rent.
  • The period of occupancy by a tenant.
  • The property occupied by a tenant.
  • Derived terms

    {{der3, co-tenancy , fixed-term tenancy , holdover tenancy , joint tenancy with right of survivorship , periodic tenancy , tenancy at will , tenancy at sufferance , tenancy by the entirety , tenancy for life , tenancy for years , tenancy from year to year , tenancy from month to month , tenancy from week to week , tenancy in common}}

    tenacity

    English

    Noun

    (tenacities)
  • The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
  • * 2009 , , 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!
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * (state of being tenacious) retentiveness, persistency * (quality keeping bodies together) cohesiveness * (quality making bodies adhere) adhesiveness, viscosity

    Antonyms

    * (quality keeping bodies together) brittleness, fragility, mobility