Determination vs. Tenacity — 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.

The quality or fact of being able to grip something firmly; grip

The quality of being determined; firmness of purpose

Extremely persistent in adhering to or doing something; stubborn or relentless

The process of establishing something exactly by calculation or research

Characterized by extreme persistence; relentless or enduring

The controlling or deciding of the nature or outcome of something

Holding together firmly; cohesive

The cessation of an estate or interest.

Clinging to another object or surface; adhesive

A tendency to move in a fixed direction.

Tending to retain; retentive

Firmness of purpose; resolve

The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.

A fixed intention or resolution

The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.

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

The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.

The result of such ascertaining.

The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.

The act of making or arriving at a decision

(physics) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.

The decision reached

The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.

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

That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; - as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.

The decision or pronouncement made.

That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.

The bringing about of a result or outcome

The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, - usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.

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

Persistent determination

The defining of a concept through its constituent elements.

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

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

Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.

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

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

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

A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part

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

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

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

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

Bringing to an end; termination; limit.

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

Bringing to an end; termination; limit.

Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.

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

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

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;