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Noun: tenacity  tu'na-si-tee
  1. Persistent determination
    "The researcher's tenacity led to a breakthrough in cancer treatment";
    - doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenaciousness, pertinacity, pertinaciousness

Derived forms: tenacities

Type of: determination, purpose

Encyclopedia: Tenacity