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the refusal to lose dressed up as a personality trait
means the quality of holding firmly to a goal, grip, or position and refusing to let go despite difficulty.
from From Latin tenax, "holding fast," which grows straight out of the verb tenere, "to hold" — the same root clutching at words like tenant (one who holds land), tenable (able to be held), and tenacious. It reached English through French in the 1500s, carrying that original sense of a grip that won't release.
- latin root
- from tenax, meaning holding fast or stubborn
- rover named
- NASA landed Perseverance on Mars in 2021
- physical grip
- tenacity also means a material's resistance to tearing
- barnacle proof
- barnacle glue is among nature's strongest adhesives
for instance
reinhold messner — first person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, completed 1986
helen keller — deaf-blind from age 19 months, earned college degree and became advocate, graduated 1904