Tenacity vs. Grit — What's the Difference?

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

Small loose particles of stone or sand

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

Courage and resolve; strength of character

Characterized by extreme persistence; relentless or enduring

Spread grit and often salt on (an icy road)

Holding together firmly; cohesive

Grate

Clinging to another object or surface; adhesive

Minute rough granules, as of sand or stone.

Tending to retain; retentive

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

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

A coarse hard sandstone used for making grindstones and millstones.

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

(Informal) Indomitable spirit; pluck.

The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.

To clamp (the teeth) together.

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

To cover or treat with grit.

(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.

To make a grinding noise.

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

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

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

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

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

Inedible particles in food.

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.

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

Persistent determination

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

Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.

Husked but unground oats.

Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.

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

To cover with grit.

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

Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.

The coarse part of meal.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone

Fortitude and determination;

Cover with a grit;

Clench together;