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)
Belarusian: насто́йлівасць f (nastójlivascʹ), упа́ртасць f (upártascʹ), сто́йкасць f (stójkascʹ)
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
Georgian: შეუპოვრობა (šeuṗovroba)
German: Beharrlichkeit (de) f, Ausdauer (de) f, Durchhaltevermögen (de) n
Hungarian: állhatatosság (hu), kitartás (hu)
Icelandic: þrautseigja f, þolgæði n, harðfylgi (is) n
Irish: buanseasmhacht f, buanseasamh m
Italian: perseveranza (it) f
Japanese: 忍耐 (ja) (にんたい, nintai)

Khmer: ស្មារតីលះបង់ (smaardəy leah bɑng)
Korean: 끈기 (kkeun-gi), 인내 (ko) (innae)
Maori: hiringa, hohotatanga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: utholdenhet (no) m or f
Polish: wytrwałość (pl)
Portuguese: perseverança (pt) f
Romanian: perseverență (ro) f, stăruință (ro) f
Russian: упо́рство (ru) n (upórstvo), насто́йчивость (ru) f (nastójčivostʹ), сто́йкость (ru) f (stójkostʹ), уси́дчивость (ru) f (usídčivostʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: upornost (sh) f
Spanish: perseverancia (es) f
Swedish: ihärdighet (sv) c
Telugu: పట్టుదల (te) (paṭṭudala)
Turkish: azim (tr), tahammül (tr), sabır (tr)
Ukrainian: завзя́ття n (zavzjáttja), насті́йність f (nastíjnistʹ), насті́йливість f (nastíjlyvistʹ), сті́йкість f (stíjkistʹ)

perseverance f (uncountable)

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