tenacity
Meaning of tenacity
- The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.
- The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
- The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.
- The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.
- 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.
Information about tenacity
- It is a name.
- The plural form of tenacity is: tenacities.
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Hyphenation of tenacity
tenac-ity
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- tenacity is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
tenacity synonyms
Meaning doggedness:
doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenaciousness, pertinacity
Meaning :
cohesiveness, adhesiveness, viscosity, determination, retentiveness, stubbornness
tenacity antonyms
Meaning :
brittleness, fragility, mobility
Words that rhyme with tenacity
City, city, acinacity, aromacity, audacity, beneplacity, bibacity, capacity, carnivoracity, contumacity, dicacity, disputacity, edacity, efficacity, feracity, fugacity, furacity, incapacity, inefficacity, insagacity, intracity, inveracity, loquacity, megacity, mendacity, minacity, mordacity, nonopacity, nonsequacity, nonveracity, nugacity, omnivoracity, opacity, overcapacity, overtenacity, perspicacity, pertinacity, pervicacity, predacity, privacity, procacity, pugnacity, radiopacity, rapacity, sagacity, salacity, saponacity, semiopacity, sequacity, untenacity