Definitions for: Endurance

[n] the power to withstand hardship or stress; "the marathon tests a runner's endurance"
[n] a state of surviving; remaining alive

Webster (1913) Definition: En*dur"ance, n. [Cf. OF. endurance. See Endure.]
1. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness;
continuance.

Slurring with an evasive answer the question
concerning the endurance of his own possession.
--Sir W.
Scott.

2. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain
or distress without resistance, or without being overcome;
sufferance; patience.

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.

Synonyms: survival

See Also: aliveness, animation, life, living, long-sufferance, long-suffering, stamina, staying power, strength, subsistence, sufferance, tolerance, toughness

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