perseverance

See also: persévérance

English

Alternative forms

• perseveraunce (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English perseveraunce, from Old French perseverance, from Latin persevērantia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpɜːsəˈvɪəɹəns/, (archaic) /pəˈsɛvəɹəns/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpɝsəˈvɪɹəns/, (archaic) /pɚˈsɛvəɹəns/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹəns
• Hyphenation: per‧se‧ve‧rance

Noun

perseverance (usually uncountable, plural perseverances)

1. Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:perseverance

   Antonyms: nonperseverance, unperseverance

   Hyponyms: belief perseverance, final perseverance, Mount Perseverance, perseverance of the saints

   • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:

     It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

Related terms

• persevere
• perseverant
• perseverate
• perseveration

Translations

persistent determination to adhere to a course of action; insistence

• Arabic: مُثَابَرَة f (muṯābara)
• Azerbaijani: əzmkarlıq, mətanət (az), qətiyyətlilik
• Belarusian: насто́йлівасць f (nastójlivascʹ), упа́ртасць f (upártascʹ), сто́йкасць f (stójkascʹ)
• Bulgarian: постоянство (bg) n (postojanstvo), настойчивост (bg) f (nastojčivost)
• Catalan: perseverança f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 恆心 / 恒心 (zh) (héngxīn), 毅力 (zh) (yìlì)

• Czech: vytrvalost (cs) f, úpornost f
• Dutch: volharding (nl) f, vasthoudendheid (nl) f, doorzettingsvermogen (nl) n
• Esperanto: persisto
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hellittämättömyys (fi), periksiantamattomuus, sinnikkyys (fi), itsepintaisuus (fi), peräänantamattomuus (fi), määrätietoisuus (fi), sitkeys (fi)
• French: persévérance (fr) f
• Galician: perseveranza f
• Georgian: შეუპოვრობა (šeuṗovroba)
• German: Beharrlichkeit (de) f, Ausdauer (de) f, Durchhaltevermögen (de) n
• Greek: επιμονή (el) f (epimoní)
• Hindi: दृढ़ता (hi) f (dŕṛhtā)
• Hungarian: állhatatosság (hu), kitartás (hu)
• Icelandic: þrautseigja f, þolgæði n, harðfylgi (is) n
• Irish: buanseasmhacht f, buanseasamh m
• Italian: perseveranza (it) f
• Japanese: 忍耐 (ja) (にんたい, nintai)
• Kapampangan: kapibabatan, kapipabatan
• Kazakh: қажырлылық (qajyrlylyq)
• Khmer: ភាពខ្ជាប់ខ្ជួន (phiəp khcŏəp khcuən), ការព្យាយាម (kaa pyiəyiəm)
• Korean: 끈기 (kkeun'gi), 인내 (ko) (innae)
• Latin: persevērantia f
• Macedonian: упорност f (upornost), настојчивост f (nastojčivost)
• Māori: hiringa, hohotatanga, manawanui
• Middle English: perseveraunce
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utholdenhet (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: tæl m or n

• Persian: پشتکار (fa)
• Polish: wytrwałość (pl) f
• Portuguese: perseverança (pt) f
• Romanian: perseverență (ro) f, stăruință (ro) f
• Russian: упо́рство (ru) n (upórstvo), насто́йчивость (ru) f (nastójčivostʹ), сто́йкость (ru) f (stójkostʹ), уси́дчивость (ru) f (usídčivostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: upornost (sh) f

• Slovak: vytrvalosť f, úpornosť f
• Spanish: perseverancia (es) f
• Swedish: ihärdighet (sv) c
• Tamil: ஊக்கம் (ta) (ūkkam), விடாமுயற்சி (ta) (viṭāmuyaṟci)
• Telugu: పట్టుదల (te) (paṭṭudala)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: azim (tr), tahammül (tr), sabır (tr)
• Ukrainian: завзя́ття n (zavzjáttja), насті́йність f (nastíjnistʹ), насті́йливість f (nastíjlyvistʹ), сті́йкість f (stíjkistʹ)

Further reading

• “perseverance”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Middle English

Noun

perseverance

1. alternative form of perseveraunce

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French perseverance.

Noun

perseverance f (uncountable)

1. perseverance