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English

Noun

The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
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.

Translations

Finnish: sitkeys, sinnikkyys

Finnish: sitkeys

Finnish: vetolujuus, vetomurtolujuus

: επιμονή (epimone)
: tenacidad

et:tenacity fr:tenacity io:tenacity hu:tenacity ru:tenacity ta:tenacity te:tenacity vi:tenacity

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tenacity \Te*nac"i*ty\, n. [L. tenacitas: cf. F. t['e]nacit['e].
See Tenacious.]
1. The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or
retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of
purpose.
[1913 Webster]

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.
[1913 Webster]

3. That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other
bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity. --Holland.
[1913 Webster]

4. (Physics) 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.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet tenacity
n : persistent determination [syn: doggedness, perseverance,
persistence, persistency, tenaciousness, pertinacity]

Moby Dictionary
adhesiveness , application , assiduity , assiduousness , balkiness ,
bigotry , bottling up , bulldog courage , bulldog tenacity ,
bullheadedness , clabbering , clamminess , cling , clotting ,
coagulation , cohesiveness , colloidality , commitment , concentration ,
consistency , constancy , corking up , curdling , decidedness ,
decision , decisiveness , dedication , definiteness , determinateness ,
determination , determinedness , devotion , diligence ,
dogged perseverance , doggedness , dogmatism , doughiness , durability ,
earnestness , endurance , engrossment , fanaticism , fidelity ,
firmness , fixed mind , fortitude , gameness , gaminess , gelatinity ,
gelatinousness , gluelikeness , gluiness , glutinosity , glutinousness ,
grit , grittiness , gumlikeness , gumminess , hardheadedness ,
hardihood , hardiness , hardness , headstrongness , heaviness , holding ,
holding in , incrassation , indefatigability , industriousness ,
industry , inflexibility , inflexible will , infrangibility ,
inhibition , insistence , insistency , inspissation , intolerance ,
intransigence , jellification , jellylikeness , keeping , lastingness ,
leatherlikeness , lentor , locking in , loyalty , maintenance ,
mettlesomeness , mucilaginousness , mulishness , nerviness , obduracy ,
obstinacy , obstinateness , opinionatedness , overzealousness ,
pastiness , patience , patience of Job , permanence , perseverance ,
persistence , persistency , pertinaciousness , pertinacity ,
pigheadedness , plodding , pluckiness , plugging , power , prehension ,
preoccupation , preservation , purpose , purposefulness ,
relentlessness , repression , resilience , resistance , resoluteness ,
resolution , resolve , resolvedness , restiveness , retainment ,
retention , retentiveness , retentivity , rigidity , ropiness , sand ,
sedulity , sedulousness , self-will , seriousness , sincerity ,
single-mindedness , singleness of purpose , slabbiness , sliminess ,
slogging , snugness , spissitude , spunkiness , stability , stamina ,
staunchness , staying power , steadfastness , steadiness ,
stick-to-itiveness , stickiness , stiff neck , stiff-neckedness ,
stiffness , stodginess , strength , stringiness , strongheadness ,
stubbornness , sulkiness , sullenness , suppression , syrupiness ,
tackiness , tenaciousness , thickening , thickness , tightness ,
tirelessness , total commitment , toughness , treacliness ,
unbreakability , unbreakableness , uncompromisingness ,
uncooperativeness , unregenerateness , unremittingness ,
unswerving attention , viscidity , viscosity , viscousness , vitality ,
will , willfulness

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!