Persistency

Quick meaning: Persistency is a noun meaning (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being persistent.

Meaning

(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being persistent.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A measure of how much something persists.

Example Sentences

"I'm not into mood changes," he says. "These ups and downs undermine consistency and persistency of purpose."

By this hand thou, thinkeſt me as farre in the diuels booke, as thou and Falſtaffe, for obduracie and perſiſtancie, let the end trie the man, [...]

However that may be, the hostility of the comic writers had evidently a general hostility behind it. Our tradition states this definitely and the persistency of the attacks proves it.

On entering her room he had been struck by the absence of that saucy independence usually apparent in her bearing towards him, notwithstanding the persistency with which he had hovered near her for the previous month.

Word Forms

• persistencies

Synonyms for persistency

Depending on context, synonyms include persistence, tenacity, doggedness, tenaciousness, perseverence, pertinacity.

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