ADAMANCE Synonyms: 90 Similar and Opposite Words

adamancy

noun

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Definition of adamancy

as in implacability

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Recent Examples of adamancy In Louisiana, roughly 80 such prisoners have not yet had resentencing hearings, due partly to prosecutors’ adamancy and ongoing court fights but also to funding shortages for attorneys to take these cases, legal advocacy groups say. — NBC News, 15 May 2020 Prince Harry has expressed his adamancy in making sure the mega-popular Netflix series doesn’t portray his and wife Duchess Meghan’s relationship and tabloid turmoil for the television screen. — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Jan. 2020 Anthony’s adamancy, the eloquent obviousness of her observations on gender, comes across in Thomson’s music through understatement. — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 29 June 2018

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Noun

Within such a movement, no band is embracing it with the tenacity — or the audacity — of Dexter and the Moonrocks.

— Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026
All three, as their titles suggest, confirmed the tenacity of Pawlikowski’s eastward gaze.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of tenacity

Noun

Her independence, expertise and steadfastness have made her one of the most respected international jurists of our time.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026
So please do not celebrate Palestinian steadfastness as though we were placed on this earth to provide inspiring images of survival between massacres.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of steadfastness

Noun

Then there’s a clearing of throats, and like malware, the narratives begin to establish persistence over mood and multiply.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2026
The dehumanization of Black people represented by the persistence of Confederate iconography in mainstream culture became an underground signifier of the precariousness of the freedoms enshrined by the 14th Amendment.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of persistence

Noun

At 6 feet 9 and 255 pounds, Johnson is a unit of a forward, with all the tenaciousness and intensity needed to carve out a pro career.

— Brendan Marks, New York Times, 9 May 2026
There was a tenaciousness from Minnesota down the stretch in what ended up being a 75-58 win over Green Bay.

— Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2026

Definition of tenaciousness

Noun

The events set in motion at the end of Season 2 do flip the boulder that starts to roll down the hill, and there is the sense of inexorability.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 June 2026
These poems are plainspoken, emotionally direct, haunted by the past and the inexorability of time.

— Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025

Definition of inexorability

Noun

These fascinating, illuminating episodes raise the question of whether great fiction requires the kind of single-mindedness and even arrogance that McCarthy cultivated.

— New York Times, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2026
Bo possessed a single-mindedness that Lu now wonders might have led to murder.

— Hailey Wang, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of single-mindedness

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