different between fortitude vs persistence

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French, from Latin fortit?d? (“bravery, strength”), from fortis (“brave, strong”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??t?tju?d/
• Hyphenation: for?ti?tude

Noun

fortitude (countable and uncountable, plural fortitudes)

1. Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity.

   Synonyms: inner strength, moxie, resolve
2. (archaic) Physical strength.

Related terms

• forte
• fortify

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French [Term?], borrowed from Latin fortit?d? (“bravery, strength”), from fortis (“brave, strong”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??.ti.tyd/

Noun

fortitude f (plural fortitudes)

1. fortitude

Related terms

• fort
• fortifier

Further reading

• “fortitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle French persistance

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??s?st(?)ns/

Noun

persistence (countable and uncountable, plural persistences)

1. The property of being persistent.

   You've got to admire his persistence. He's asked her out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.

2. (computer science) Of data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the program.

   Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.

3. (meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).

Synonyms

• persistency
• See also Thesaurus:obstinacy
• See also Thesaurus:perseverance

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