Thesaurus: endurance

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1. n. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.
2. n. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience.
3. n. the power to withstand hardship or stress
4. n. a state of surviving; remaining alive
5. 1. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance. Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott. 2. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience. Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death. Sir W. Temple. Syn. -- Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation.
6. n:100 n. the power to withstand hardship or stress