What's the difference between patience and tenacity?

Patience


Definition:

  • (n.) The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.
  • (n.) The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.
  • (n.) Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
  • (n.) Sufferance; permission.
  • (n.) A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.
  • (n.) Solitaire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hopefully it could be just a week 7.03pm Michel texts Adam Smith thanks for your patience today 9.31pm Michel texts Adam Smith are you publishing the Slaughters and May opinion tomorrow?
  • (2) He has frequently tested the patience of Japan's conservative sumo authorities with his disdain for the rules of engagement in the ring and his bad behaviour off it.
  • (3) This is a community where readers' patience for mediocrity is measured in seconds not minutes," added Thomson, the former Times editor who moved to New York to run the WSJ at the end of 2007 following Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of the paper's publisher, Dow Jones.
  • (4) Benteke continued to test Anfield’s patience but created the third with a measured pass to Teixeira, who made no mistake from 12 yards.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Obama’s thank-you notes 1) Red Hot Chili Peppers Carpool Karaoke Bare talent 2) Thank You Notes with President Obama Love, Potus 3) Irish fans serenade nun on train with ‘Our Father’ chant Lauding a sister 4) Disappointed guinea pig Pet lip 5) 10 Confusing Famous Movie Endings Finally explained All’s well that ends well 6) Pete’s Dragon - Official US Trailer Breathing new life into a classic 7) Brexit’s Farage Flotilla: The Movie Water carry on 8) Patience - 4k timelapse movie Beauty speeded up
  • (6) It’s something I’ve wanted ever since I’ve lived in the area.” A man who has kept his family home on Teesside since taking charge of Middlesbrough has required patience.
  • (7) Here's more details and reaction: Marco Incerti (@MarcoInBxl) #Berlusconi more than 50 trials.. blabla... etc, judges have drawn my name in the mud, took up my time, my patience, huge economic resources September 18, 2013 Marco Incerti (@MarcoInBxl) #Berlusconi , ridicolous sentence to 4 years, for tax evasion that I didn't commit, and even if I did would be minor.
  • (8) They could be playing these people – Morales, Chesimard – off as pawns.” While Cuba was once an attractive destination for criminals, revolutionaries and skyjackers – 34 of 62 American plane hijackers flew to Cuba in 1969 – Fidel Castro lost patience with the swarm as early as the 70s.
  • (9) Other zookeepers quickly pulled Patience away from Bradford but he had been killed instantly, Scott said.
  • (10) This overtaxes the attention, mechanical memory, and patience of the brain injured pupil.
  • (11) David, Marcelo and Simon are thrilled by the initial outpouring of support we’ve received from our fans and we’re excited about sharing our plans with the city, county and community soon.” The accord comes after almost 18 months of haggling with city lawmakers over the potential location, which had tested the patience of MLS officials and threatened to derail the hopes of an MLS franchise ever coming to the city.
  • (12) Mandelson believes Cameron is underestimating the patience of Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, who is keen for Britain to remain one of the key members of the EU.
  • (13) Parents should discipline their children with love, understanding, patience and tolerance.
  • (14) He requires patience, understanding, and repeated explanations to allay his apprehension and anxiety.
  • (15) A little more patience would have yielded a better result,” Bush said.
  • (16) Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has some sympathy for Cameron, but her patience is not endless.
  • (17) Photograph: Da Capo Lifelong Books This is why I have no patience for anyone who insists that women must learn self-defense moves and memorize lists of specious advice to prevent our own victimization.
  • (18) Brando directed once - on One-Eyed Jacks (1959) - before boredom and sourness took over, but seldom had the patience, the stamina or the courage to be master of his own fate.
  • (19) Fulham is a team that defends well but we played well, we were a balanced team and we had patience.
  • (20) I don’t want any more shots.’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Patience Carter describes being held hostage during Orlando shooting 2.06am Mina Justice was asleep at home when she woken by a text message from her 30-year-old son, Eddie.

Tenacity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
  • (n.) That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
  • (n.) That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effect of plant species containing tannins on the tenacity of Cl.
  • (2) Kolo Touré: the lion-hearted loveable leader who is a triumph for tenacity | Paul Doyle Read more West Ham, who also saw a £31m bid for Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette rejected this week, are now expected to return with an improved offer for both players.
  • (3) This problem is inherent to the design of catheters using sideports for outflow and is enhanced by the tenacity of the omentum in this population in walling off foreign bodies.
  • (4) But the strike proved a seminal moment in the British labour movement, drawing attention to the overlooked plight of female migrant workers – and generating admiration for Desai's tenacity.
  • (5) Villas-Boas paid £15m to bring the Belgian from Fulham and the signs are that he could prove a bargain, as Dembélé is emerging as one of the most complete midfielders in the Premier League, boasting strength, tenacity, creative passing, tricky dribbling and dangerous shooting.
  • (6) In the ensuing melee, Giles described Westra van Holthe as not having the “capacity, capability or the tenacity or the professionalism to be the chief minister”.
  • (7) "And I'm impressed with the tenacity of her client, who is a student at FSU.
  • (8) He is convinced that the legends’ sporting training has imbued them with values such as humility, discipline and the tenacity to succeed.
  • (9) It nearly left these shores forever and I'd like to congratulate the National Portrait Gallery and the Art Fund for their tenacity in running such a successful fundraising campaign over the past six months.
  • (10) They have concluded that medically uncontrollable limbic epilepsy is associated in its physiopathological substrate to: pathological irritability, affective tenacity, impulsiveness, epileptic cognitive dysfunction and abstraction deficiencies of intellectual process.
  • (11) They took the game to Everton throughout and Tim Howard had to be in fine form to nullify a threat that evaporated after half-time, although the home side’s work-rate, tenacity and defensive organisation impressed.
  • (12) These tasks must be performed with constant effort and tenacity on the one hand by the state via the necessary public health organizations (personnel, facilities, programming), and on the other by the community as well as by the individual citizen who, being the user and driving force, must take advantage of the benefits and at the same time work for better results through changes in his own behavior and lifestyle.
  • (13) The tenacity of this habit can be explained in terms of the various psychological motivations for smoking in combination with the physiologic addiction to nicotine.
  • (14) After a day of scrambling, Giles retained the leadership – with the tenacity-lacking Westra van Holthe as his deputy.
  • (15) Only then can India hold its head up high again as a country committed to a better world for women, and as the only country in the world that has protested for women with so much vigour and tenacity.
  • (16) According to studies in cognitive psychology, confirmation bias (a tendency to seek confirming evidence) and theory tenacity (persistent belief in a theory in spite of contrary evidence) pervasively influence actual problem solving and hypothesis testing, often interfering with effective testing of alternative hypotheses.
  • (17) The president's opponents have consistently underestimated his tenacity throughout the uprising, but their warnings appeared to be echoed by even his staunch ally Moscow when the Kremlin's Middle East envoy Mikhail Bogdanov conceded he might be ousted.
  • (18) In a show of support the Republican Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, came to the floor and congratulated Paul for his "tenacity and for his conviction".
  • (19) As a result of their tenacity and resilience, this new reality they helped manifest exposes their younger siblings to a new and more positive trajectory.
  • (20) But the tenacity of antisemitic beliefs is striking even in Britain, where, according to a separate report last year by Jewish Policy Research, 47% of the British Jewish respondents felt antisemitism was not a very big problem (although 40% did feel antisemitism had increased in the past five years).