Diligence vs. Determination — What's the Difference?

Diligence—carefulness and persistent effort or work—is one of the seven heavenly virtues. It is indicative of a work ethic, the belief that work is good in itself.

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.

Earnest and persistent application to an undertaking; steady effort; assiduity.

The quality of being determined; firmness of purpose

Attentive care; heedfulness.

The process of establishing something exactly by calculation or research

A large stagecoach.

The controlling or deciding of the nature or outcome of something

Steady application; industry; careful work involving long-term effort.

The cessation of an estate or interest.

The qualities of a hard worker, including conscientiousness, determination, and perseverance.

A tendency to move in a fixed direction.

Carefulness, in particular, the necessary care appropriate to a particular task or responsibility.

Firmness of purpose; resolve

(historical) A four-wheeled public stage-coach, widely used in France before the general establishment of the railways.

A fixed intention or resolution

The process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.

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

The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful attention; - the opposite of negligence.

The result of such ascertaining.

Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.

The act of making or arriving at a decision

Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings.

The decision reached

A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.

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

Conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation

The decision or pronouncement made.

Persevering determination to perform a task;

The bringing about of a result or outcome

A diligent effort;

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

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;