different between perseverance vs permanence

English

Alternative forms

• perseveraunce (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French perseverance, from Latin perseverantia

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??s??v????ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?s??v???ns/
• Rhymes: -????ns
• Hyphenation: per?se?ve?rance

Noun

perseverance (usually uncountable, plural perseverances)

1. Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:perseverance

   • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

     It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman 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.

Related terms

• persevere
• perseverance of the saints
• perseverant

Translations

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French perseverance

Noun

perseverance f (uncountable)

1. perseverance

English

Etymology

From Middle French permanence, from Medieval Latin permanentia, from Latin permane? (“I remain; last”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?p??m?n?ns/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?m?n?ns/

Noun

permanence (countable and uncountable, plural permanences)

1. The state of being permanent.
2. (physics) The reciprocal of magnetic inductance.

Synonyms

• (state): perdurance, remanence; see also Thesaurus:permanence

Antonyms

• (state): transience
• (state): impermanence

Derived terms

• object permanence
• semipermanence

Related terms

• impermanence
• permanent

Translations

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin permanentia, from Latin permane? (“I remain; last”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.ma.n??s/

Noun

permanence f (plural permanences)

1. permanence (state of being permanent)
2. homeroom (classroom or classes)

Derived terms

• en permanence

Related terms

• permanent
• impermanence

Descendants

• ? Romanian: permanen??

Further reading

• “permanence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).