Endurance

endurance
    n 1: the power to withstand hardship or stress; "the marathon
         tests a runner's endurance"
    2: a state of surviving; remaining alive [syn: {survival},
       {endurance}]
    

Endurance \En*dur"ance\, n. [Cf. OF. endurance. See {Endure}.]
   1. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness;
      continuance.
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            Slurring with an evasive answer the question
            concerning the endurance of his own possession.
                                                  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   2. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain
      or distress without resistance, or without being overcome;
      sufferance; patience.
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            Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience
            and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death.
                                                  --Sir W.
                                                  Temple.

   Syn: Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation.
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157 Moby Thesaurus words for "endurance":
      abidingness, acceptance, age, antiquity, application, assiduity,
      assiduousness, bulldog tenacity, changelessness, concentration,
      constancy, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity,
      decisiveness, defeat of time, defiance of time, diligence,
      diuturnity, dogged perseverance, doggedness, durability,
      durableness, duration, energy, engrossment, extension, fidelity,
      firmness, fixedness, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness,
      force, fortitude, frozenness, guts, gutsiness, hardening,
      hardiness, heartiness, immobility, immovability, immovableness,
      immutability, indefatigability, indulgence, industriousness,
      industry, insistence, insistency, intestinal fortitude,
      invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, lastingness,
      lengthening, lenience, leniency, lifetime, long standing,
      long-lastingness, long-livedness, long-sufferance, long-suffering,
      longanimity, longevity, loyalty, lustihood, lustiness, maintenance,
      might, mightiness, obstinacy, patience, patience of Job,
      patientness, perdurability, perennation, permanence, permanency,
      perpetualness, perpetuation, perpetuity, perseverance, persistence,
      persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plodding, plugging,
      potency, power, powerfulness, preoccupation, progress, progression,
      prolongation, protraction, pursuance, quiescence, relentlessness,
      repetition, resolution, rigidity, robustness, ruggedness, run,
      sedulity, sedulousness, self-control, single-mindedness,
      singleness of purpose, slogging, solidity, stability, stalwartness,
      stamina, standing, stasis, staying power, steadfastness,
      steadiness, stick-to-itiveness, sticking power, stoicism,
      stoutness, straight course, strength, strength of will,
      stubbornness, sturdiness, sufferance, survival, survivance,
      sustained action, sustenance, sweet reasonableness, tenaciousness,
      tenacity, tirelessness, tolerance, toleration, torpor, toughness,
      unchangeability, unchangingness, uninterrupted course,
      unremittingness, unswerving attention, vigor, vigorousness,
      vitality, waiting game, waiting it out, way