different between tenacity vs guts

English

Etymology

tenac(ious) +? -ity, from Middle French ténacité, from Latin ten?cit?s.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??næs.?.ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??næs?ti/
• Hyphenation: tena?city

Noun

tenacity (countable and uncountable, plural tenacities)

1. The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.
   • 2009, Jorge Cham, PHD Comics: Softball: younger and faster:

     — Our opponents may be younger, faster and less out of shape than we are, but we have something they’ll never have!

     — Tenure?

     — Tenacity!

2. The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
3. The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.
4. The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.
5. (physics) 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.

Synonyms

• (state of being tenacious): tenaciousness, determination, persistency, retentiveness, stubbornness
• (quality keeping bodies together): cohesiveness
• (quality making bodies adhere): adhesiveness, viscosity

Antonyms

• (quality keeping bodies together): brittleness, fragility, mobility

Related terms

• tenacious
• tenaciously

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ts/

Noun

guts

1. plural of gut

Noun

guts pl (plural only)

1. The entrails or contents of the abdomen.

   Synonyms: entrails, guttings, innards, insides, viscera

2. (by extension, informal) Courage; determination.

   Synonyms: pluck, (vulgar) balls, nerve; see also Thesaurus:courage

3. (informal) Content, substance.

4. (informal) The essential, core parts.

5. (informal) One's innermost feelings.

6. (Australia, New Zealand) The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates; the centre.
7. (Australian rules football, informal) The center of the field.

Translations

Verb

guts

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gut

Verb

guts (third-person singular simple present gutses, present participle gutsing, simple past and past participle gutsed)

1. (Australia, informal) To eat greedily.
2. (informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).

   He gutsed out a 6-1 win.

Anagrams

• Gust, gust, tugs

Danish

Noun

guts c

1. indefinite genitive singular of gut

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ts

Noun

guts f or m (plural gutsen, diminutive gutsje n)

1. gouge, a suddenly flowing quantity of fluid
2. a chisel type with a hollow beak

Verb

guts

1. first-person singular present indicative of gutsen
2. imperative of gutsen

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Anagrams

• stug