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endurance

noun
/ɪnˈdjʊəɹəns/UK/ɪnˈdʊɹəns/US

Etymology

First attested in the late 15th century. From Middle French endurance, from Old French endurance. Morphologically endure + -ance.

  1. derived from indūrō
  2. derived from endurer
  3. inherited from enduren
  4. suffixed as endurance — “endure + ance”

Definitions

  1. The measure of a person's stamina or persistence.

    • He has great endurance: he ran a marathon and then cycled home.

  2. An ability to endure hardship.

  3. The length of time that a ship's rations will supply.

The neighborhood

Derived

endurance art, muscular endurance, nonendurance, superendurance

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at endurance. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at endurance. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at endurance

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA