Sedulity

Definition: Sedulity

Sedulity

Noun

1. The quality of constantly diligent and attentive.

Date "sedulity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)

Etymology: Sedulity \Se*du"li*ty\, noun. [Latin expression sedulitas. See Sedulous.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Sedulity

Synonym: sedulousness (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.
Perseverance	Constancy, steadiness; singleness of purpose, tenacity of purpose; persistence, plodding, patience; sedulity; (industry); pertinacy, pertinacity, pertinaciousness; iteration;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Language		Translations for "sedulity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zellshmëri (studiousness). (various references)

Arabic		‏كد (diligence, drudgery, exert oneself, exhaust, fatigue, industry, overwork, toil, work hard), ‏مواظبة (assiduity, industry, perseverance), ‏مثابرة (industry, perseverance, persistence). (various references)

Bulgarian		усърдие (alacrity, ardour, assiduity, assiduousness, diligence, hardness, impressment, industry, mettle, pains, painstaking, zeal), прилежание (application, diligence, painstaking, studiousness). (various references)

Czech		píle (application, diligence, industry, studiousness). (various references)

French		assiduité. (various references)

German		Emsigkeit (industrious, sedulousness). (various references)

Greek		φιλεργία. (various references)

Hungarian		szorgalom (assiduity, diligence, industry, studiousness). (various references)

Pig Latin		edulitysay

Portuguese		perseverança (consistence, consistency, patience, perseverance, persistence, stamina), esforço persistente, diligência (application, cart house, demarche, diligence, endeavor, endeavour, expedition, haste, industry, necessary steps, omnibus, stagecoach, step, work, works), assiduidade (application, assiduity, assiduousness, industry), aplicação (adhibition, affectation, appliance, application, applique, effort, employment, enforse, industry, use). (various references)

Russian		усердие (assiduity, assiduousness, zeal). (various references)

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

Spanish		diligencia (alacrity, coach, demarche, diligence, necessary steps, stagecoach). (various references)

Turkish		hamaratlık (diligence, industry), gayret (Ardor, ardour, assiduity, conation, effort, endeavor, endeavour, energy, enthusiasm, exertion, fervency, fervor, fervour, go, hastiness, industry, intentness, keenness, nerve, pep, push, slog, snap, spurt, strenuousness, struggle, studiousness, tug, vim, zeal, zip), çalışkanlık (assiduity, diligence, industriousness, strenuousness, studiousness). (various references)

Ukranian		старанність (accuracy, alacrity, application, assiduity, diligence, elaboration, exactness, goodwill, heartiness, impressment, nicety, painstaking, particularity, thoroughness). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính kiên trì (doggedness, enduringness, perseverance, sedulousness), tính chuyên cần (assiduousness, sedulousness, studiousness), tính cần mẫn (sedulousness), tính cần cù (industriousness, industry, operoseness, sedulousness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Sedulity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sadoleto, seidlitz, sexdigit, Seydlitz. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "sedulity" (pronounced 'Se*du"li*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 "d-e-i-l-s-t-u-y"
	-1 letter: dilutes, duelist, dustily.
	-2 letters: delist, dilute, duties, idlest, listed, lusted, silted, studly, styled, suited, tildes, yields.
	-3 letters: deils, deist, deity, delis, delts, diets, dites, ditsy, duels, duets, duits, dulse, dusty, edits, etuis, idles, idyls, ileus, isled, islet, istle, leuds, lieus, ludes, lusty, luted, lutes, lysed, sidle, silty, sited, slide, slued, stied, stile, study.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-s-t-u-y"
	+1 letter: outyields, studiedly, tediously, yuletides.
	+2 letters: disquietly, unsteadily.
	+3 letters: desultorily, disgustedly, dissolutely, seditiously, seductively, sustainedly.
	+4 letters: despitefully, despiteously, disreputably, disruptively.
	+5 letters: deleteriously, destructively, disjunctively, disquietingly, distastefully, distressfully, equidistantly, expeditiously, subordinately, superfluidity, tendentiously.
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