assiduousness
91loving — loving, affectionate, devoted, fond, doting are comparable when they mean feeling or showing love or strong liking. Loving stresses the inward emotion and usually implies sincerity and depth of feeling {a loving father} {loving friends} {looking… …
92pains — *effort, exertion, trouble Analogous words: labor, toil, travail, *work: industriousness or industry, diligence, sedulousness, assiduousness (see corresponding adjectives at BUSY) …
93activity — n 1. motion, movement, doing, action; stir, hustle, hustling, bustle, bustling, restlessness, commotion, tumult, fuss, flurry, pother, ado, Inf. to do, Sometimes Facetious. do; busyness, occupation, employment, engagement; application, diligence …
94assiduity — n 1. assiduousness, application, diligence, industry, exertion, labor; constancy, devotion, devotedness; care, pains, carefulness, attention, sedulity, sedulousness; tirelessness, indefatigability, perseverance, endurance, persistence, patience,… …
95diligence — n assiduity, assiduousness, application, exertion, labor, industry, industriousness; perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, tenacity, constancy, sedulousness, doggedness, intentness, earnestness, Inf. stick to it iveness …
96eagerness — n 1. enthusiasm, ardor, avidity, keenness, fervor, intensity; zeal, willingness, readiness, promptness, gameness; anxiousness, solicitude, intentness; impatience, fluster, ruffle, Inf. itchy feet, Sl. ants; desire, longing, yearning, wishing. 2.… …
97keenness — n cogency, penetration, incisiveness, pointedness; mordancy, mordaciousness, trenchancy, pungency, cuttingness, bitingness, stingingness, scorchingness; satiricalness, sardonicism, derisiveness, mockingness, insultingness; harshness, severity,… …
98patience — n 1. composure, containment, aplomb, sang froid, poise, self possession; self control, self command, equanimity, equilibrium, dispassion, Inf. cool; quiescence, quiet, repose, stillness, calmness, peacefulness, peace; tranquillity, serenity,… …
99pertinacity — n 1. stubbornness, pigheadedness, bull headedness, mulishness, Inf. orneriness; obstinacy, Inf. cussedness, pervicaciousness; obdurateness, intractability, inflexibility, intransigence, intransigency; rigidity, will of iron, sternness, stiffness; …
100perversity — n 1. contrariness, contradictoriness, contradictiousness, Archaic. contrariousness, contrariety, contumaciousness, contumacity, contumacy, frowardness, seditiousness, refractoriness, querulousness; waywardness, disobedience, intransigence,… …
