The difference between Tenacity and Viscosity

When used as nouns, tenacity means the quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose, whereas viscosity means the state of being viscous.


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  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.

  1. Viscosity as a noun (uncountable):

    The state of being viscous.

  2. Viscosity as a noun (countable, physics):

    A quantity expressing the magnitude of internal friction in a fluid, as measured by the force per unit area resisting uniform flow.

  3. Viscosity as a noun (uncountable, psychology):

    A tendency to prolong interpersonal encounters.