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    The quality of holding on tightly and refusing to give up, even when things are hard or other people try to stop you. People use this word to praise someone who keeps trying and working hard despite problems.

    堅韌;毅力

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組成From Latin 'tenax', holding fast - related to the Latin verb 'tenere', to hold.

同家族的字

  • tenantshares the Latin root 'tenere', to hold (someone who holds/rents a place)
  • maintainshares the same root, meaning to hold something steady over time

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tenacitynoun/təˈnæs.ɪ.ti/

  • 1

    The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.

    • Like the Cuscus of the Moluccas, the Galeopithecus feeds chiefly on leaves, and possesses a very voluminous stomach and long convoluted intestines. The brain is very small, and the animal possesses such remarkable tenacity of life, that it is exceedingly difficult to kill it by any ordinary means.
    • — Our opponents may be younger, faster and less out of shape than we are, but we have something they’ll never have! — Tenure? — Tenacity!
  • 2

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

  • 3

    The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.

  • 4

    The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.

  • 5

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsThe 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.

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