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What is the noun for tenacious?

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tenacity
  1. The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.
  2. The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
  3. The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.
  4. The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.
  5. (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.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “How you stand up to the demands of your school work and personal problems will provide some basis for evaluating your inner tenacity and determination.”
      “Some of them have shown great tenacity in adhering to their own preconceived views of what the law of this State ought to be.”
      “It tends to increase the tenacity of the metal, but induces such brittleness in both cold and hot rolling.”
tenaciousness
  1. The characteristic of being tenacious; tenacity.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “One never feels that he is wholly approving of the growing tenaciousness of William and Emily's relationship.”
      “His determination, tenaciousness and commitment to the game makes him one of our truly great players.”
      “I would also like to thank the Commissioner for the tenaciousness he has shown over many months and the loyalty he has shown to the project.”
tenacy
  1. (obsolete) Tenaciousness; obstinacy.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This was only overcome thanks to the tenacy of private institutions which preserved their study and fostered their use.”
      “She had been forced to spend pounds 7,000 on a CCTV system to comply with her licence, having put down pounds 50,000 for the tenacy.”
      “Rera also recently created Ejari, an online tenacy contract registration site where agents and landlords must register all contracts.”
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