tenacity

te·nac·i·ty

noun \tə-ˈna-sə-tē\

Definition of TENACITY

: the quality or state of being tenacious

Examples of TENACITY

1. If there is a particular tenacity in Islamist forms of terrorism today, this is a product not of Islamic scripture but of the current historical circumstance that many Muslims live in places of intense political conflict. —Max Rodenbeck, New York Book Review, 30 Nov. 2006
2. … everything about a person, even the most blameless of facts, can have the sticky tenacity of a secret. —Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2002
3. A tribute to tenacity, the free ascent of Trango Tower was the fulfillment of a cowboy climber's dream. —Todd Skinner, National Geographic, April 1996

Origin of TENACITY

(see tenacious)

First Known Use: 15th century

Rhymes with TENACITY

audacity, capacity, edacity, fugacity, loquacity, mendacity, opacity, predacity, pugnacity, rapacity, sagacity, sequacity, veracity, vivacity, voracity