The difference between Persistency and Tenacity

When used as nouns, persistency means the state or characteristic of being persistent, whereas tenacity means the quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose.


check bellow for the other definitions of Persistency and Tenacity

  1. Persistency as a noun (uncountable):

    The state or characteristic of being persistent.

  2. Persistency as a noun (countable):

    A measure of how much something persists.

  1. Tenacity as a noun:

    The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.

  2. Tenacity as a noun:

    The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.

  3. Tenacity as a noun:

    The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.

  4. Tenacity as a noun:

    The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.

  5. Tenacity as a noun (physics):

    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.