Assiduity

Definition: Assiduity

Assiduity

Noun

1. Great and constant diligence and attention.

Date "assiduity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Assiduity \As`si*du"i*ty\, noun; plural Assiduities. [Latin expression assiduitas: compare to the French expression assiduite. See Assiduous.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Assiduity

Synonyms: assiduousness (n), concentration (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Activity	Industry, assiduity; assiduousness; Adjective: sedulity; laboriousness; drudgery; (labor); painstaking, diligence; perseverance; a; indefatigation; habits of business.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Assiduity

English words defined with "assiduity": Assiduities ♦ Disassiduity. (references)

Etymologies containing "assiduity": Disassiduity. (references)

"Assiduity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Assiduity" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	13	97,576

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Language		Translations for "assiduity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vëmendje (attention, attentiveness, care, carefulness, concentration, consideration, heed, note, notice, regard, thought), përkujdesje (attendance, attention, care, precaution, solicitude), këmbëngulje (assiduousness, importunity, insistence, obstinacy, patience, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, self will, stubbornness, tenacity). (various references)

Arabic		‏مواظبة (industry, perseverance, sedulity), ‏مجاملة مستمرة, ‏حرص (attention, care, jealousy, take notice), ‏إجتهاد (conscientiousness, diligence, judgment, studiousness). (various references)

Bulgarian		старание (application, effort, pains, painstaking, study, trouble), усърдие (alacrity, ardour, assiduousness, diligence, hardness, impressment, industry, mettle, pains, painstaking, sedulity, zeal), постоянство (consistency, constancy, firmness, perseverance, persistence, stability). (various references)

Czech		vytrvalost (constancy, endurance, perseverance, persistence, steadiness, strenuousness), horlivost (alacrity, eagerness, heat, painstaking, solicitude, zeal). (various references)

Farsi		پشتکار (Perseverance), مداومت (Perseverance), توجه ودقت مداوم , توجه (Attendance, Attention, Consideration, Heed, Keep, Notation, Notice, Regard, Remark, Tendency, Tent), استقامت (Backbone, Perseverance, Stamina). (various references)

Finnish		uutteruus (industry). (various references)

French		assiduité. (various references)

German		Fleiß (application, diligence, industriousness, industry, studiousness, study). (various references)

Greek		επιμέλεια (custody, diligence, studiousness, thoroughness). (various references)

Hebrew		תמי�"ות (constancy, continuity, duration, permanence, perseverance, regularity, steadfastness), חריצות (ability, diligence, industry, knack, skill). (various references)

Hungarian		szorgalom (diligence, industry, sedulity, studiousness), gondoskodás (care, charge, foresight, forethought, maintenance, providing, provision, regard, solicitude). (various references)

Italian		assiduit� . (various references)

Japanese Kanji		丹念 (application, diligence). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		た�"ね�" (application, diligence), きっきょ (diligence, hard toil, pinching), つとめぶり (conduct). (various references)

Manx		jeeanid (ardour, avidity, eagerness, earnestness, enthusiasm, fervour, intenseness, proneness, vehemence, zeal), jeadys (application, diligence, perseverance, sincerity, tidiness), jeadid (diligence, perseverance, tidiness). (various references)

Pig Latin		assiduityay

Portuguese		assiduidade (application, assiduousness, industry, sedulity), zelo (care, fervor, fervour, forwardness, warmth, zeal), deferências (address). (various references)

Romanian		atenţii (attention), asiduitate (assiduousness, seductive), vrednicie (application, diligence, efficiency, honor, honour, sedulousness, valor, valour), stãruinţã (constancy, diligence, hardness, insistence, patience, perseverance, persistence, solicitation, steadfastness, steadiness, tenacity, zeal), perseverenţã (continuance, perseverance, tenacity, urgency). (various references)

Russian		усердие (assiduousness, sedulity, zeal), прилежание (assiduousness, diligence, industry, sedulity, studiousness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		priležnost, marljivost (assiduousness, diligence, sedulity, studiousness). (various references)

Spanish		asiduidad (exactingness, punctuality, timeliness). (various references)

Swedish		trägenhet (perseverance), ihärdighet (perseverance), flit (application, diligence, industry), efterhängsenhet (importunity). (various references)

Turkish		gayret (Ardor, ardour, conation, effort, endeavor, endeavour, energy, enthusiasm, exertion, fervency, fervor, fervour, go, hastiness, industry, intentness, keenness, nerve, pep, push, sedulity, slog, snap, spurt, strenuousness, struggle, studiousness, tug, vim, zeal, zip), özen (application, attention, care, elaboration, jealousy, pains, painstaking, solicitude, thought), çalışkanlık (diligence, industriousness, sedulity, strenuousness, studiousness). (various references)

Ukrainian		старанність (accuracy, alacrity, application, diligence, elaboration, exactness, goodwill, heartiness, impressment, nicety, painstaking, particularity, sedulity, thoroughness), ретельність (application, care, diligence, eagerness, nicety, rigor, rigour, severity). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính siêng năng (assiduousness), sự luôn luôn chiều chuộng v�"n vã. (various references)

Welsh		dyfalwch (diligence). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Assiduity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asidity, assiduitie, assiduty. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "assiduity" (pronounced 'As`si*du"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-i-i-s-s-t-u-y"
	-2 letters: saiyids.
	-3 letters: audits, sadist, saiyid, sayids, tsadis.
	-4 letters: adits, adust, audit, daisy, dauts, ditas, ditsy, duits, dusts, dusty, sadis, saids, satis, sayid, sayst, situs, staid, stays, studs, study, sudsy, suits, tsadi, yauds.
	-5 letters: adit, aids, aits, dais, daut, days, diss, dita, dits, duit, dust, duty, sadi, said, sati, says, sits, stay, stud, suds, suit.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-i-i-s-s-t-u-y"
	+2 letters: antisubsidy.
	+3 letters: fastidiously, subsidiarity.
	+5 letters: disputatiously.
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