different between temerity vs persistence

English

Etymology

temer(arious) +? -ity, from Middle English temerite, temeryte, from Old French temerité, from Latin temerit?s (“chance, accident, rashness”), from temer? (“by chance, casually, rashly”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??m???ti/, /t??m???ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /t??m???ti/
• Rhymes: -???ti

Noun

temerity (countable and uncountable, plural temerities)

1. (uncountable) Reckless boldness; foolish bravery.

   Synonyms: audacity, foolhardiness, rashness, recklessness

   • 1569, Thomas Pearson, trans., "The Second Paradox," in The booke of Marcus Tullius Cicero entituled Paradoxa Stoicorum, T. Marshe (London),

     Neyther the spightfull temerity and rashnes of variable fortune, nor the envious hart burning and in iurious hatred of mine enemies shold be able once to damnify me.
2. (countable) An act or case of reckless boldness.
   • 1910, Edith Wharton, "The Blond Beast," Scribner's Magazine, vol. 48 (Sept),

     Draper, dear lad, had the illusion of an "intellectual sympathy" between them.... Draper's temerities would always be of that kind.

3. (uncountable) Effrontery; impudence.

   Synonyms: brashness, cheek, gall, chutzpah

Related terms

• intemerate
• temerarious
• temerary
• temerous

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Further reading

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “temerity”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
• temerity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “temerity” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "temerity" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002)
• "temerity" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• “temerity”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)
• temerity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• temerity at OneLook Dictionary Search

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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