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Endurance

Endurance Meaning & Definition
Endurance Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Endurance?

[n] the power to withstand hardship or stress; "the marathon tests a runner's endurance"
[n] a state of surviving; remaining alive

Synonyms | Synonyms for Endurance: survival

Related Terms | Find terms related to Endurance: abidingness | acceptance | age | antiquity | application | assiduity | assiduousness | bulldog tenacity | changelessness | concentration | constancy | continualness | continuance | continuation | continuity | decisiveness | defeat of time | defiance of time | diligence | diuturnity | dogged perseverance | doggedness | durability | durableness | duration | energy | engrossment | extension | fidelity | firmness | fixedness | forbearance | forbearing | forbearingness | force | fortitude | frozenness | guts | gutsiness | hardening | hardiness | heartiness | immobility | immovability | immovableness | immutability | indefatigability | indulgence | industriousness | industry | insistence | insistency | intestinal fortitude | invariability | invariableness | inveteracy | lastingness | lengthening | lenience | leniency | lifetime | long standing | longanimity | longevity | long-lastingness | long-livedness | long-sufferance | long-suffering | loyalty | lustihood | lustiness | maintenance | might | mightiness | obstinacy | patience | patience of Job | patientness | perdurability | perennation | permanence | permanency | perpetualness | perpetuation | perpetuity | perseverance | persistence | persistency | pertinaciousness | pertinacity | plodding | plugging | potency | power | powerfulness | preoccupation | progress | progression | prolongation | protraction | pursuance | quiescence | relentlessness | repetition | resolution | rigidity | robustness | ruggedness | run | sedulity | sedulousness | self-control | single-mindedness | singleness of purpose | slogging | solidity | stability | stalwartness | stamina | standing | stasis | staying power | steadfastness | steadiness | sticking power | stick-to-itiveness | stoicism | stoutness | straight course | strength | strength of will | stubbornness | sturdiness | sufferance | survival | survivance | sustained action | sustenance | sweet reasonableness | tenaciousness | tenacity | tirelessness | tolerance | toleration | torpor | toughness | unchangeability | unchangingness | uninterrupted course | unremittingness | unswerving attention | vigor | vigorousness | vitality | waiting game | waiting it out | way

See Also | aliveness | animation | life | living | long-sufferance | long-suffering | stamina | staying power | strength | subsistence | sufferance | tolerance | toughness

Endurance In Webster's Dictionary

\En*dur"ance\, n. [Cf. OF. endurance. See {Endure}.] 1. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance. Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. --Sir W. Scott. 2. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience. Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death. --Sir W. Temple. Syn: Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation.

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