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| the quality or property of being tenacious. |
[Origin: 1520–30; < L tenācitās equiv. to tenāc- (s. of tenāx) holding fast, deriv. of tenére to hold + -itās -ity2
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] —Synonyms See perseverance.
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n. The state or quality of being tenacious: "Social styles developed in the 19th century withstand, with sporelike tenacity, all that the present century can throw at them" (Larry McMurty). |
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tenacity
1526, from M.Fr. ténacité (14c.), from L. tenacitas "the act of holding fast," from tenax (gen. tenacis) "tough, holding fast," from tenere "to hold" (see tenet). Tenacious first attested 1607.
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| tenacity | |
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| persistent determination [syn: doggedness] |
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Tenacity
Te*nac"i*ty\, n. [L. tenacitas: cf. F. t['e]nacit['e]. See Tenacious.]1. The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose. 2. That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc. 3. That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity. --Holland. 4. (Physics) 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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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