Indolence vs Perseverance - What's the difference?
indolence | perseverance |
Habitual laziness or sloth.
* 1814 , , Mansfield Park , ch. 11:
* 1912 , , The Sign at Six , ch. 19:
* 2001 Sept. 10, , "
Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
Persistent determination to adhere to a plan of direction; insistence.
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
As nouns the difference between indolence and perseverance
is that indolence is habitual laziness or sloth while perseverance is continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.indolence
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Noun
(en noun)- "It is indolence', Mr. Bertram, indeed. ' Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen."
- [H]er whole figure expressed a tense vibrant life in singular contrast to the apparent indolence of the men at whom she was talking.
In Praise of Lasiness," Time (retrieved 24 March 2014):
- [N]ow, after five weeks of doing nothing, I am an authority on the subject of indolence and glad to share my views with you.
Synonyms
* indolencyperseverance
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Alternative forms
* perseveraunce (archaic)Noun
(-)- It had taken nine years from the evening that first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.