tenacity

tenacity is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
2. noun. That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
3. noun. That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
4. noun. The 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.
5. noun. persistent determination

   Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness

Synonyms

doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness

Common word forms

tenacities

Words from these letters

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