TENACITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tenacity mean? 

• TENACITY (noun)
  The noun TENACITY has 1 sense:

1. persistent determination

  Familiarity information: TENACITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TENACITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Persistent determination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

doggedness; perseverance; persistence; persistency; pertinacity; tenaciousness; tenacity

Hypernyms ("tenacity" is a kind of...):

determination; purpose (the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose)

Derivation:

tenacious (stubbornly unyielding)

 Context examples 

His feet clung to the earth with the same tenacity that he clung to life.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Think of her appearance, Watson—her manner, her suppressed excitement, her restlessness, her tenacity in asking questions.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That he may be safely trusted to do, for although he is absolutely devoid of reason, he is as tenacious as a bulldog when he once understands what he has to do, and, indeed, it is just this tenacity which has brought him to the top at Scotland Yard.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was the tenacity with which he clung to the earth.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A constitution of iron and the vitality of the Wild were White Fang's inheritance, and he clung to life, the whole of him and every part of him, in spirit and in flesh, with the tenacity that of old belonged to all creatures.

(White Fang, by Jack London)