2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Endurance \En*dur"ance\, n. [Cf. OF endurance. See {Endure}.]
1. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness;
continuance.
Slurring with an evasive answer the question
concerning the endurance of his own possession.
--Sir W.
Scott.
2. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain
or distress without resistance, or without being overcome;
sufferance; patience.
Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience
and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death.
--Sir W.
Temple.
Syn: Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
endurance
n 1: the power to withstand hardship or stress
2: a state of surviving; remaining alive [syn: {survival}]
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