Meaning of ENDURANCE
| Pronunciation: | | en'dûruns
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- [n] the power to withstand hardship or stress; "the marathon tests a runner's endurance"
- [n] a state of surviving; remaining alive
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| | Synonyms: | | survival |
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| | See Also: | | aliveness, animation, life, living, long-sufferance, long-suffering, stamina, staying power, strength, subsistence, sufferance, tolerance, toughness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \En*dur"ance\, n. [Cf. OF. endurance. See {Endure}.]
1. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness;
continuance.
Slurring with an evasive answer the question
concerning the endurance of his own possession.
--Sir W.
Scott.
2. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain
or distress without resistance, or without being overcome;
sufferance; patience.
Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience
and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death.
--Sir W.
Temple.
Syn: Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation.
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| | Related Terms: | | abidingness, acceptance, age, antiquity, application, assiduity, assiduousness, bulldog tenacity, changelessness, concentration, constancy, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, decisiveness, defeat of time, defiance of time, diligence, diuturnity, dogged perseverance, doggedness, durability, durableness, duration, energy, engrossment, extension, fidelity, firmness, fixedness, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness, force, fortitude, frozenness, guts, gutsiness, hardening, hardiness, heartiness, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, indefatigability, indulgence, industriousness, industry, insistence, insistency, intestinal fortitude, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, lastingness, lengthening, lenience, leniency, lifetime, long standing, longanimity, longevity, long-lastingness, long-livedness, long-sufferance, long-suffering, loyalty, lustihood, lustiness, maintenance, might, mightiness, obstinacy, patience, patience of Job, patientness, perdurability, perennation, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, perpetuation, perpetuity, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plodding, plugging, potency, power, powerfulness, preoccupation, progress, progression, prolongation, protraction, pursuance, quiescence, relentlessness, repetition, resolution, rigidity, robustness, ruggedness, run, sedulity, sedulousness, self-control, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slogging, solidity, stability, stalwartness, stamina, standing, stasis, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, sticking power, stick-to-itiveness, stoicism, stoutness, straight course, strength, strength of will, stubbornness, sturdiness, sufferance, survival, survivance, sustained action, sustenance, sweet reasonableness, tenaciousness, tenacity, tirelessness, tolerance, toleration, torpor, toughness, unchangeability, unchangingness, uninterrupted course, unremittingness, unswerving attention, vigor, vigorousness, vitality, waiting game, waiting it out, way |
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