Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.

    Zähigkeit, Beharrlichkeit

    це́пкостьcépkostʹ, упо́рствоupórstvo, вы́держкаvýderžka

    завзятістьzavzjatistʹ, упертістьupertistʹ, стійкістьstijkistʹ

  2. (countable, uncountable)The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.

    свя́зностьsvjáznostʹ

    чіпкістьčipkistʹ

  3. (countable, uncountable)The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.

  4. (countable, uncountable)The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.

    кле́йкостьkléjkostʹ

    липкістьlypkistʹ, клейкістьklejkistʹ

  5. (countable, uncountable)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.

    про́чность на растяже́ниеpróčnostʹ na rastjažénije, предел прочностиpredel pročnosti

    опір розривуopir rozryvu

More definitions
  • persistent determination

Examples

8 sentences
  1. I admire your tenacity.

    ruЯ восхищаюсь твоей настойчивостью. — odexed

    deIch bewundere deine Beharrlichkeit. — Trebalor

  2. I admire Tom's tenacity.

  3. He has a spirit of tenacity.

  4. I got over the difficulty with my characteristic tenacity.

    deIch habe die Schwierigkeit mit meiner typischen Beharrlichkeit überwunden. — Trebalor

  5. With tenacity like that, you can learn any language.

    ruС таким упорством можно выучить любой язык. — marafon

    deMit solch einer Beharrlichkeit kann man jedwede Sprache erlernen. — freddy1

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 4
quality or state of being tenacious:
quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force:
quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies:
greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder:
Русский
By meaning 4
quality or state of being tenacious:
quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force:
quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies:
greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
quality or state of being tenacious:

Origin

From Middle French ténacité, from Latin tenācitās (whence -acity).

From Middle French ténacité, from Latin tenācitās (whence -acity).

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Forms

plural: tenacities
Singulartenacity
Pluraltenacities

regular

Synonyms

12 synonyms
quality making bodies adhere:adhesivenessviscosity
quality keeping bodies together:cohesiveness

Antonyms

3 antonyms
quality keeping bodies together:brittlenessfragilitymobilityB2

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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