Associations to the word «Tenacity»
Noun
Wiktionary
TENACITY, noun. The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
TENACITY, noun. The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; – as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
TENACITY, noun. The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
TENACITY, noun. 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.
Dictionary definition
TENACITY, noun. Persistent determination.
Wise words
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could
conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly
sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had
this power.