'Endurance' definitions:
Definition of 'endurance'
(from WordNet)
noun
The power to withstand hardship or stress; "the marathon tests a runner's endurance"
noun
A state of surviving; remaining alive [syn: survival, endurance]
Definition of 'Endurance'
From: GCIDE
- Endurance \En*dur"ance\, n. [Cf. OF. endurance. See Endure.]
- 1. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance. [1913 Webster]
- Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'endurance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- long-lastingness,
- long-livedness,
- long-sufferance,
- long-suffering,
- longanimity,
- longevity,
- 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,
- stick-to-itiveness,
- sticking power,
- 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