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per·sis·tence

(pər-sĭs′təns)

1. The act of persisting.

2. The state or quality of being persistent; persistency.

3. Continuance of an effect after the cause is removed: persistence of vision.

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persistence

(pəˈsɪstəns) or

persistency

1. the quality of persisting; tenacity

2. the act of persisting; continued effort or existence

3. the continuance of an effect after the cause of it has stopped: persistence of vision.

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

per•sist•ence

(pərˈsɪs təns, -ˈzɪs-)

also per•sist′en•cy,

1. the act or fact of persisting.

2. the quality of being persistent.

[1540–50; < Late Latin persistentia; see persist, -ence]

syn: See perseverance.

Persistence

of parents—Lipton, 1970.

Persistence

See Also: CLINGING, PURPOSEFULNESS

As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile —Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Sorrow) as nagging as envy —Karl Shapiro
(The name was becoming) a teasing obsession, like a tune —Wilfrid Sheed
Dogged as a turtle crossing a road —Marge Piercy
Hold on with a bulldog grip —Abraham Lincoln
From a telegram to General Grant, August 1864.
I’m like a terrier pup. Somebody tells me to do something and it gets done —Sue Grafton
Insistent as a baby’s cry at feeding time —Anon
Insistent as remorse —Victor Hugo
Jabs like a prizefighter (at their feelings about each other) —Linda Barret Osborne, reviewing a novel in New York Times, August 31, 1986
Obstinate as a Hindu woman contemplating suttee —Frank Swinnerton
Obstinate as death —John Dryden
Persistent annoyance, like the rough place on a tooth —David R. Slavitt
Persistent as a bulldog —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Persistent as a fly on a hound’s nose —Harold Adams
Persistent as a nagging backache —Anon
(Ugly and) persistent as pain —Carlos Baker
Persist … like a terrier with a rat … she wouldn’t let go, come hell or high water —James Reeve
Prevail like the false pig in Aesop —G. K. Chesterton
Relentless as decay —Joseph Wambaugh
Relentless as a nagging tongue —Anon
Relentless as a windshield wiper —Anon
Skin … as thick as his wallet —Jane Gross, New York Times, August 22, 1986
The man with the thick skin and wallet is Abraham Hirshfeld, who ran a persistent campaign for the New York State governorship despite many insults and putdowns.
Stick to it, like salmon swimming upstream —Anon
Stubborn and hardy as a rubber mat —Marge Piercy
(Death bugs me) as stubborn as insomnia —Anne Sexton
Tenacious as remorse —Vincente Blasco-Ibâñez
The thought … unable to move [out of his head] as a jellyfish fixed on the sand —Norman Mailer
Tug at … like a robin with a worm —T. Coraghessan Boyle
You’re like a train; nothing will turn you when you get started —Joyce Cary

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Noun	1.	persistence - the property of a continuous and connected period of time continuity durability, enduringness, lastingness, strength - permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force; "they advertised the durability of their products"
	2.	persistence - persistent determination doggedness, perseverance, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity determination, purpose - the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose; "his determination showed in his every movement"; "he is a man of purpose"
	3.	persistence - the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior; "his perseveration continued to the point where it was no longer appropriate" perseverance, perseveration continuance, continuation - the act of continuing an activity without interruption

persistence

noun determination, resolution, pluck, stamina, grit, endurance, tenacity, diligence, perseverance, constancy, steadfastness, doggedness, pertinacity, indefatigability, tirelessness Skill comes only with practice, patience and persistence.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

persistence

noun

1. The state or quality of being insistent:

insistence, insistency, perseverance, persistency.

2. Uninterrupted existence or succession:

continuance, continuation, continuity, continuum, duration, endurance, persistency.

Translations

مُثابَرَه، مُواظَبَه، تَصْميم

přetrvávání

vedbliven

Beharren

persistencia insistencia perseverancia

persistance persistant

òrautseigja; òrjóska

persistenza persistere perseveranza

doorzettingsvermogen

hardnakkethet iherdighet

настойчивость упорство

pretrvávanie

vztrajnost

ısrar sebat

持久

persistence

[pəˈsɪstəns] persistency [pəˈsɪstənsɪ] N

1. (= tenacity) → perseverancia f
as a reward for her persistence → como premio a su perseverancia

2. (= continuing to exist) [of symptoms, disease] → persistencia f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

persistence

[pə^rˈsɪstəns] n

(= perseverance) [person] → persévérance f
... and her persistence paid off → ... et sa persévérance a payé.

[problem, symptom] → persistance f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

persistence

, persistency

n (= tenacity) → Beharrlichkeit f, → Hartnäckigkeit f; (= perseverance) → Ausdauer f; (of disease) → Hartnäckigkeit f; (of fog, pain etc) → Anhalten nt, → Fortdauern nt; the persistence of his questioning brought results → sein beharrliches Fragen hat schließlich doch zu etwas geführt; the persistence of a high temperature → anhaltend hohes Fieber

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

persistence

[pəˈsɪst/əns] n (tenacity) → perseveranza; (obstinacy) → ostinazione f, persistenza; (continued existence) → persistere m

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

persist

(pəˈsist) verb

to keep doing, thinking etc in spite of opposition or difficulty; to continue asking, persuading etc. It will not be easy but you will succeed if you persist; He didn't want to tell her, but she persisted (in asking).

perˈsistent adjective

She was persistent in her demands/denials; persistent questions.

perˈsistently adverb

perˈsistence noun

per·sis·tence

n. persistencia, insistencia, constancia.

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"My lord," answered the man, "pardon my boldness and my persistence. Take back your money, or give me the blow which I crave.

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Greatly alarmed, he tried to climb a tree, but the Fortune pulled him down and bestowed itself upon him with cruel persistence.

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Still, the easterly winds, and, generally speaking, the easterly weather all the world over, is characterized by regularity and persistence.

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The minister, with good-natured persistence, repeated his invitation.

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I never ceased to be fascinated by their persistence in eating buttered toast with their gloves on, and I observed with admiration the unconcern with which they wiped their fingers on their chair when they thought no one was looking.

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He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bird that hung on the other side of the door, whistling his fluty notes out upon the breeze with maddening persistence.

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Tess was the merest stray phenomenon to Angel Clare as yet--a rosy warming apparition which had only just acquired the attribute of persistence in his consciousness.

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And the course is all the clearer from there being no salary in question to put my persistence in an equivocal light."

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This persistence of the wind to head him off toward the southern part of Africa was defeating his calculations, and he no longer knew upon whom or upon what to depend.

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He told himself that Mildred must have senses like anybody else, it was only a question of awakening them; he had theories about woman, the rip at heart, and thought that there must come a time with everyone when she would yield to persistence. It was a question of watching for the opportunity, keeping his temper, wearing her down with small attentions, taking advantage of the physical exhaustion which opened the heart to tenderness, making himself a refuge from the petty vexations of her work.

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Pierre had none of the practical persistence that would have enabled him to attend to the business himself and so he disliked it and only tried to pretend to the steward that he was attending to it.

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The result of this wise persistence was that the General finally reached firmer soil and, after penetrating a dense forest, came to the Dominion of the Growleywogs.