perseverance

Other forms of perseverance

plural

perseverances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about perseverance

What does perseverance mean?

perseverance means "persistent determination". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in perseverance?

perseverance has 4 syllables: per-se-ver-ance. The stress falls on "ver". In IPA it is /ˌpɝsəˈvɪɹəns/.

What is another word for perseverance?

Close synonyms include doggedness, persistence, persistency, tenacity, tenaciousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is perseverance a common word?

perseverance is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.