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Definition: Tenacity |
TenacityNoun1. Persistent determination. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tenacity" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references) |
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Satire | TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics. The following illustrative lines were written of a Californian gentleman in high political preferment, who has passed to his accounting: Of such tenacity his grip That nothing from his hand can slip. Well-buttered eels you may o'erwhelm In tubs of liquid slippery-elm In vain -- from his detaining pinch They cannot struggle half an inch! 'Tis lucky that he so is planned That breath he draws not with his hand, For if he did, so great his greed He'd draw his last with eager speed. Nay, that were well, you say. Not so He'd draw but never let it go!. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Chemistry | The breaking force divided by the titre. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The resistance of sprays of dusts to removal from the vines by rain or wind. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The breaking load per unit resultant linear density of the unstrained specimen in the conditioned state. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. The property of the particles or molecules of a substance to resist separation; tensile strength b. The force of strength with which the particles (or molecules) of a mineral or rock hold together or resist separation. The terms commonly used to describe the tenacity of a mineral are friable, brittle, sectile,malleable, flexible, elastic, and tough. (references) |
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Synonyms: TenacitySynonyms: doggedness (n), perseverance (n), persistence (n), persistency (n), pertinacity (n), tenaciousness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Coherence | Tenacity, toughness; stickiness; inseparability, inseparableness; bur, remora. |
Memory | Noun: memory, remembrance; retention, retentiveness; tenacity; veteris vestigia flammae; tablets of the memory; readiness. |
Obstinacy | Noun: obstinateness; Adjective: obstinacy, tenacity; cussedness; perseverance; a; immovability; old school; inflexibility; (hardness); obduracy, obduration; dogged resolution; resolution; ruling passion; blind side. |
Parsimony | Noun: parsimony, parcity; parsimoniousness, stinginess; Adjective: stint; illiberality, tenacity. |
Perseverance | Constancy, steadiness; singleness of purpose, tenacity of purpose; persistence, plodding, patience; sedulity; (industry); pertinacy, pertinacity, pertinaciousness; iteration; |
Resolution | Mastery over self; self control, self command, self possession, self reliance, self government, self restraint, self conquest, self denial; moral courage, moral strength; perseverance; a; tenacity; obstinacy; bulldog; British lion. |
Retention | Noun: retention; retaining; Verb: keep, detention, custody; tenacity, firm hold, grasp, gripe, grip, iron grip. |
Tenacity | Noun: {ant. } tenacity, toughness, strength; (cohesion); grip, grasp, stickiness, (cohesion); sequacity; stubbornness. (obstinacy); glue, cement, glutinousness, sequaciousness, viscidity, (semiliquidity). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tenacity |
| English words defined with "tenacity": Beggar's ticks ♦ Damask steel ♦ Langya, Lentor ♦ Silicium bronze. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tenacity": clay thrower ♦ grindability ♦ optimism ♦ Palm, Philippius, pot maker ♦ QUALITY-CONTROL TESTER ♦ Walls. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Le Paquebot Tenacity (1934) | |
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Elbert Hubbard | Luck is tenacity of purpose. |
Thomas H. Huxley | Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They had grown together with the tenacity of his nature. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PALM, n. A species of tree having several varieties, of which the familiar "itching palm" (Palma hominis) is most widely distributed and sedulously cultivated. This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver. The metal will adhere with remarkable tenacity. The fruit of the itching palm is so bitter and unsatisfying that a considerable percentage of it is sometimes given away in what are known as "benefactions." |
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| "Tenacity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tenacity" is used about 141 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% | 141 | 26,682 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tenacity": tenacity of life ♦ tenacity of purpose. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tenacity | 24 |
high polyester tenacity | 4 |
definition tenacity | 2 |
quote tenacity | 2 |
hoyt tenacity | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "tenacity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ngulm (insistence, output, perseverance, persistence), ngjitësi, këmbëngulje (assiduity, assiduousness, importunity, insistence, obstinacy, patience, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, self will, stubbornness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قدرة على التذكر, تماسك (cement, cling, coherence, cohesion, consistence, consolidate, pastiness, solidarity, solidify, squash, steady, unity), تشبث (bite, cling, clutch, hang on, hug, staple), عناد (inexorability, inflexibility, intransigence, obduracy, obstinacy, pertinacity, perverseness, perversity, refractory, stiffness, stoutness, stubbornness, waywardness, wilfulness), صلابة (callosity, hardihood, hardness, hards, inflexibility, iron, perseverance, reliability, resistance, rigidity, rigorism, singleness, solidity, soundness, stability, steadiness, stiffness, stoutness, strength, stubbornness, toughmindness, toughness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | упоритост (grit, obduracy, obstinacy, patience, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, piggery, refractoriness, stickiness, stick-to-itiveness, stolidity, stoutness, strenuousness, stubbornness, toughness), сила на сцеплението, сила (definition, drive, dynamism, effect, energy, feck, fiber, fibre, flush, force, forcefulness, forte, goodness, hardness, impetus, intension, intensity, inwardness, kick, lustiness, medium, might, mightiness, muscle, muscularity, nerve, pith, potency, power, prowess, punch, sinews, snap, stamina, strength, stringency, thews, tuck, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, vinegar, violence, virility, virtue, virulence, vis, volume, zap, zip), твърдост (constancy, crispness, endurance, firmness, fixedness, forcefulness, fortitude, granite, hardness, resolution, resolve, rigidity, sand, stability, stoicism, substance), лепливост, издръжливост (bottom, endurance, guts, mettle, patience, reliability, resistance, sand, sinews, stay, staying power, strength, tensility, toughness, vitality, wear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 固执 (self-will, self-willed, Wrongheadedness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tvrdošíjnost (obstinacy, pertinacity, refractoriness), soudržnost (coherence, cohesion, solidarity, togetherness), přilnavost (adhesion, adhesiveness), houževnatost (doggedness, stiffness, toughness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tenacitet/strækmodstand, tenacitet, sejhed (endurance, toughness), fasthed (firmness, stability), brudspænding (interrupting voltage, strength, ultimate stress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | specifieke sterkte, resistentie (drug resistance, tolerant), breeklengte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | چسبندگی (Adherence, Cohesion, Stick), سفتی (Duress, Inflexibility, Rigidity, Solidity, Tension), سختی (Accolade, Austerity, Buckram, Difficulty, Duration, Duress, Granite, Hardship, Implacability, Inflexibility, Privation, Resistance, Rigidity, Severity, Solidity, Stress, Violence), سرسختی (Obstinacy, Pertinacity), اصرار (Perseverance, Yen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tarttuvuus (bond, tack, tackiness), vetomurtolujuus, vetolujuus (tensile resistance, tensile strength), kiinnittyvyys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ténacité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zähigkeit (doggedness, ductility, glutinousness, hardiness, mettle, tenaciousnes, toughness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συνεκτικότητα (body, cohesion, connectedness, consistence, consistency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לפית" (clasp, grasp, holding), עקש ות (mulishness, obstinacy, pertinacity, self will, stubbornness), אחיז" חזק", "חזק" (holding, maintenance, retention, tenure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szívósság (persistence, persistency, toughness, wiriness), makacsság (fractiousness, obduracy, obstinacy, pertinacity, perversity, setness, stubbornness, toughness), kitartás (durance, endurance, long-suffering, loylity, perseverance, persistence, persistency, stamina, steadiness, strength, sustainment, toughness), állhatatosság (constancy, fixedness, loylity, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, stability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ketegaran (fortitude, obstinacy), ketahanan (endurance, hardness), kekukuhan (firmness, soundness, sturdiness), kekokohan (firmness, soundness, sturdiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tenacit (strength, toughness), tenacia (patience, toughness), persistenza (after-glow, continuation, lag, paint, persistence, persistency, smearing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 執着 (adhesion, attachment), 執念 (implacability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | が"ばり (endurance), しゅうね" (anniversary, implacability, whole year), しゅうじゃく (adhesion, attachment), しゅうちゃく (adhesion, attachment, sorption), ふとうふくつ (indomitableness, inflexibility), ふとう (disparity, ice-free, impropriety, indomitableness, inequality, inflexible, injustice, invalid, nonparticipation, pier, unbending, undeservedness, unfair, unreasonableness), スポ"" (heart), じきゅうりょく (stamina). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 강인. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | greimmaltys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enacitytay tenacidade (obstinate, persistence, pertinence, strength, tenaciousness, toughness). (various references) tenacitate (purposefulness, stubbornness), stãruinţã (assiduity, constancy, diligence, hardness, insistence, patience, perseverance, persistence, solicitation, steadfastness, steadiness, zeal), perseverenţã (assiduity, continuance, perseverance, urgency), fidelitate (attachment, constancy, exactness, faith, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, reality, retentiveness, staunchness, troth), coeziune a unui metal. (various references) упорство (doggedness, obstinacy, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, stubbornness). (various references) jačina (intensity, power, raciness, rankness, severity, sharpness, sinew, strenght, substantiality, violence, volume), istrajnost (perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, thoroughness), čvrstina (firmness, hardness, stoutness, strength, sturdiness, substance, substantiality, tightness). (various references) tenacidad (obstinacy, stickiness, strength, stubbornness, sturdiness, tenaciousness, toughness). (various references) tenacitet, töjning (elongation, elongation per cent, extension per cent, strain), vidhäftningsförmåga (adhesion, bite), persistens (longevity, persistence), orubblighet (immovability, imperturbability, impregnability), fasthet (consistence, consistency, fastness, firmness, fixedness, fixity, solidity), envishet (obstinacy, obstinancy, pertinacity, stubbornness), elasticitet (elasticity, give, resilience, resiliency, spring). (various references) ความ"ื้อรั้น (stick-to-itiveness). (various references) yapışkanlık (gumminess, hard pass, sliminess, stickiness, viscidity), sıkı sıkı sarılma, inat (contumacy, doggedness, intransigent, obstinacy, persistence, pertinacity, spite, stubbornness, waywardness), azim (constancy, determination, devoutness, doggedness, firm intention, pep, perseverance, purpose, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, steadfastness, strenght of purpose, will, zeal). (various references) сталість (permanence), упертість (contrariness, contumacy, induration, intractability, jib, non-compliance, obduracy, obstinacy, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, perversity, piggishness, recalcitrance), чіпкість. (various references) tính ngoan cường (doggedness, tenaciousness, undauntedness), tính ngoan cố (egoism, frowardness, pertainciousness, pertinacity, recalcitrance, recalcitration, tenaciousness, wilfulness), tính kiên trì tính gan lì (tenaciousness), tính dẻo dai (tenaciousness), tính chất dai (tenaciousness), tính chất bền (tenaciousness), tính bám chặt tính bền bỉ (tenaciousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tenacitas. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Tenacity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: menacity, tanacity, tenacoty, tenancity, tencaity, venacity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tenacity" (pronounced tuna"sutē) |
| 5 | -a" s u t ē | audacity, capacity, incapacity, mendacity, opacity, overcapacity, veracity, voracity. |
| 4 | -s u t ē | adversity, analyticity, animosity, atrocity, authenticity, biodiversity, complexity, complicity, curiosity, density, diversity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, ethnicity, falsity, Felicity, ferocity, generosity, intensity, laxity, monstrosity, multiplicity, necessity, obesity, paucity, perplexity, perversity, pomposity, propensity, publicity, reciprocity, religiosity, scarcity, simplicity, specificity, toxicity, university, varsity, velocity, virtuosity, viscosity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, austerity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, captivity, causality, cavity, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, divinity, docility, duality, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, femininity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opportunity, originality, oversensitivity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, passivity, paternity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, personality, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, reliability, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, seasonality, security, selectivity, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, velvety, venality, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, visibility, vitality, volatility, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: cyanite, nictate, tetanic. | |
-2 letters: acetin, cattie, centai, enatic, entity, intact, nicety, tetany. | |
-3 letters: actin, antic, attic, canty, catty, enact, entia, natty, netty, nitty, tacet, tacit, taint, tecta, tenia, tenty, tinct, tinea, titan, yenta, yince. | |
-4 letters: acne, ante, anti, ayin, cain, cane, cant, cate, cent, cine, cite, city, cyan, etic, etna, neat, nett, nice, nite, tace, tact, tain, tate, teat, tent, tine, tint, tiny, tyin, tyne, yean, yeti, yett. | |
-5 letters: ace, act, ain, ait, ane, ani, ant, any, ate, att, aye, can, cat, cay, eat, eta, ice, icy, nae, nay, net, nit, tae, tan, tat, tea, ten, tet, tic, tie, tin, tit, tye, yea, yen, yet, yin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-t-t-y" | |
+1 letter: certainty, intestacy. | |
+2 letters: centrality. | |
+3 letters: acetylating, acetylation, actinometry, anticruelty, antipyretic, contrariety, intricately, pertinacity, tetanically, thiocyanate, tonetically, typecasting, uncertainty. | |
+4 letters: acetylations, actinomycete, anelasticity, antigenicity, antihysteric, antipyretics, authenticity, clatteringly, inelasticity, interfaculty, mutagenicity, pneumaticity, scatteringly, technicality, tectonically, tetracycline, thiocyanates, unsystematic. | |
+5 letters: actinomycetes, analyticities, antihysterics, antiobscenity, antisymmetric, authentically, centripetally, clandestinity, conceptuality, confraternity, connotatively, continentally, contrastively, cytogenetical, hypothecating, hypothecation, incontestably, interactively, intoxicatedly, intrathecally, noncreativity, nonsystematic, parasynthetic, pathogenicity, pneumatolytic, precipitantly, synthetically, tetracyclines, underactivity, unsympathetic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6E 61 63 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . -. .- -.-. .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101110 01100001 01100011 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e n a c i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006E 0061 0063 0069 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5471806769758691 |
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