different between persistence vs sedulity

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

Translations

English

Etymology

sedul(ous) +? -ity, from Latin sedulitas.

Noun

sedulity (countable and uncountable, plural sedulities)

1. diligence, persistence

   He approached his daily piano practice with sedulity.

Related terms

• sedulous

Anagrams

• dysluite