perserverance

Noun

perseverance (usually uncountable, plural perseverances)

1. (usually) Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
   • It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

   Synonyms:

   persistence, sticktoitiveness, steadfastness

   Antonyms:

   nonperseverance, unperseverance