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/ˌpɜːsəˈvɪəɹəns/ · noun
Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure..
It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
Use perseverance when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Perseverance means Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure..
Common synonyms include perseverance, persistence, sticktoitiveness, steadfastness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
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