Determination vs. Grit — What's the Difference?

Determination is a positive emotional feeling that involves persevering towards a difficult goal in spite of obstacles. Determination occurs prior to goal attainment and serves to motivate behavior that will help achieve one's goal.

Small loose particles of stone or sand

The quality of being determined; firmness of purpose

Courage and resolve; strength of character

The process of establishing something exactly by calculation or research

Spread grit and often salt on (an icy road)

The controlling or deciding of the nature or outcome of something

Grate

The cessation of an estate or interest.

Minute rough granules, as of sand or stone.

A tendency to move in a fixed direction.

The texture or fineness of sand or stone used in grinding.

Firmness of purpose; resolve

A coarse hard sandstone used for making grindstones and millstones.

A fixed intention or resolution

(Informal) Indomitable spirit; pluck.

The ascertaining or fixing of the quantity, quality, position, or character of something

To clamp (the teeth) together.

The result of such ascertaining.

To cover or treat with grit.

The act of making or arriving at a decision

To make a grinding noise.

The decision reached

A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.

The settling of a question or case by an authoritative decision or pronouncement, especially by a judicial body

Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.

The decision or pronouncement made.

Inedible particles in food.

The bringing about of a result or outcome

A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.

(Archaic) A fixed movement or tendency toward an object or end.

(geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.

The defining of a concept through its constituent elements.

Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.

The qualification of a concept or proposition to render it more definite or specific.

Husked but unground oats.

The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.

Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.

Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.

The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness.

To cover with grit.

(countable) The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.

To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.

(countable) That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.

Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.

A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part

The coarse part of meal.

(countable) The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.

Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.

The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.

A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; - called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit.

The addition of a distinguishing feature to a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent.

Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit.

The act of determining the relations of an object, such as genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification

Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude.

Bringing to an end; termination; limit.

To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.

The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth.

Bringing to an end; termination; limit.

A hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone

Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.

Fortitude and determination;

The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness.

Cover with a grit;

The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.

Clench together;

That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.

A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part; as, a determination of blood to the head.

The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.; as, the determination of the ohm or of the wave length of light; the determination of the salt in sea water, or the oxygen in the air.

The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.

The act of determining the relations of an object, as regards genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification; as, I am indebted to a friend for the determination of most of these shells.

The act of determining the properties of something

The quality of being determined to do or achieve something;

A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration;

The act of making up your mind about something;