English-Thai Dictionary

tenacity

N ความ ดื้อรั้น  ความดื้อ ดึง  obstinacy perseverance stubbornness kwam-due-ran

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TENACITY

n.[L. tenacitas, from teneo, to hold. ] 1. Adhesiveness; that quality of bodies which makes them stick or adhere to others; glutinousness; stickiness; as the tenacity of oils, of glue, of tar, of starch and the like.
2. That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting; without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; opposed to brittleness or fragility.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TENACITY

Te *nac "i *ty, n. Etym: [L. tenacitas: cf. F. ténacité. 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 )

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

tenacity

te nac i ty |təˈnasitē təˈnæsəti | ▶noun the quality or fact of being able to grip something firmly; grip: the sheer tenacity of the limpet. • the quality or fact of being very determined; determination: you have to admire the tenacity of these two guys. • the quality or fact of continuing to exist; persistence: the tenacity of certain myths within the historical record.

 

Oxford Dictionary

tenacity

tenacity |tɪˈnasɪti | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the quality or fact of being able to grip something firmly; grip: the sheer tenacity of the limpet. • the quality or fact of being very determined; determination: you have to admire the tenacity of these two guys. • the quality or fact of continuing to exist; persistence: the tenacity of certain myths within the historical record.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

tenacity

tenacity noun she practices her gymnastics routine with the tenacity of a bulldog: persistence, determination, perseverance, doggedness, strength of purpose, tirelessness, indefatigability, resolution, resoluteness, resolve, firmness, patience, purposefulness, staunchness, steadfastness, staying power, endurance, stamina, stubbornness, intransigence, obstinacy, obduracy, pertinacity.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

tenacity

tenacity noun the tenacity with which he stuck to his story: persistence, pertinacity, determination, perseverance, doggedness, tenaciousness, single-mindedness, strength of will, firmness of purpose, strength of purpose, fixity of purpose, bulldog spirit, tirelessness, indefatigability, resolution, resoluteness, resolve, firmness, patience, purposefulness, staunchness, steadfastness, constancy, staying power, application, diligence, assiduity, sedulousness, insistence, relentlessness, inexorability, inexorableness, implacability, inflexibility; stubbornness, intransigence, obstinacy, obduracy, obdurateness; German Sitzfleisch; informal stickability; N. Amer. informal stick-to-it-iveness; rare continuance, perseveration. ANTONYMS irresolution, lack of resolve.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

tenacity

te nac i ty /tɪnǽsəti /名詞 U ねばり強さ, 固執 ; 不屈, 頑強 .