perseverance

See also: persévérance

English

perseverance (usually uncountable, plural perseverances)

Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
- 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
  It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

persistent determination to adhere to a course of action; insistence

Arabic: مُثَابَرَة‎‎ f (muṯābara)
Catalan: perseverança f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 恆心 (zh), 恒心 (zh) (héngxīn), 毅力 (zh) (yìlì)
Czech: vytrvalost (cs) f, úpornost f
Dutch: volharding (nl) f, vasthoudendheid f
Finnish: hellittämättömyys (fi), itsepintaisuus (fi), peräänantamattomuus (fi), määrätietoisuus (fi)
French: persévérance (fr) f
Galician: perseveranza f
German: Beharrlichkeit (de) f, Ausdauer (de) f
Hungarian: állhatatosság (hu), kitartás (hu)
Icelandic: þrautseigja f, þolgæði n, harðfylgi (is) n
Irish: buanseasmhacht f, buanseasamh m
Italian: perseveranza (it) f

perseverance f (uncountable)

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