Tenacity is refusing to let go of a purpose. Sheer tenacity, admire his tenacity, the tenacity of the campaign.
It is always admiring, which is what separates it from stubbornness: the same behaviour is tenacity when it works and obstinacy when it does not. The Latin means holding on.
1nountenacityRefusing to let go of a purpose.
“Her tenacity paid off, and after ten rejections she finally found a publisher.”
tenacity is a persistence.
Latin tenacitas comes from tenere, to hold.
Latin
tenācitās
Middle French
ténacité
English, today
tenacity
From Middle French ténacité, from Latin tenācitās (whence -acity).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA