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  2. Persistence (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    A study comparing the Temperament and Character Inventory to the Five-Factor Model of personality found that persistence is substantially positively associated with facets of conscientiousness, [18] a trait describing how disciplined, organised and responsible(or norm-abiding) an individual is. Those high in PS were also likely to display high ...

  3. Persistence - Wikipedia

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    Persistence (discontinuity), a concept in geotechnical engineering; Persistence (linguistics), a principle of grammaticalization; Persistence (psychology), a personality trait; Persistence of vision, a theory on how the illusion of motion in films is achieved; Persistence forecasting, predicting the future to be the same as the present

  4. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  5. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    For the second portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z. Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also have some currency in the other region; other definitions may be recognised by the other as Briticisms or Americanisms respectively. Additional usage ...

  6. Collins English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The current edition is the 14th; it was published on 31 August 2023, with more than 732,000 words, meanings, and phrases (not 730,000 headwords) and 9,500 place names and 7,300 biographies. [2] A newer edition of the 14th edition was published 7 May 2024. [3] The previous edition was the 13th edition, which was published in November 2018. [4]

  7. Patience - Wikipedia

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    Patience, or forbearance, is the ability to endure difficult or undesired long-term circumstances. Patience involves perseverance or tolerance in the face of delay, provocation, or stress without responding negatively, such as reacting with disrespect or anger.

  8. Vīrya - Wikipedia

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    It signifies strength of character and persistent effort for the well-being of others as well as the ability to defend the Triratna from attacks. [ 9 ] In the absence of sustained effort in practicing meditation, craving creeps in and the meditator comes under its influence.

  9. Glossary - Wikipedia

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    A bilingual glossary is a list of terms in one language defined in a second language or glossed by synonyms (or at least near-synonyms) in another language. In a general sense, a glossary contains explanations of concepts relevant to a certain field of study or action. In this sense, the term is related to the notion of ontology.