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ENDURING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Patiently bearing continual wrongs or trouble
Example:
a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife
Synonyms:
enduring; long-suffering
Classified under:
Similar:
patient (enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lasting a long time
Example:
imperishable truths
Synonyms:
abiding; enduring; imperishable
Classified under:
Similar:
lasting; permanent (continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place)
Derivation:
enduringness (permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb endure
Context examples:
By the end of the 15th century, however, the Norse of Greenland had vanished – leaving only abandoned ruins and an enduring mystery.
(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)
The term includes individuals belonging to a large number of tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of them still enduring as communities.
(American Indian, NCI Thesaurus)
He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel, more ferocious, and more intelligent.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
So high and so conceited that there was no enduring him!
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
A disorder characterized by an enduring pattern of avoidance of social situations and interpersonal contact due to overwhelming feelings of social inadequacy and a hypersensitivity to negative evaluation or rejection.
(Avoidant Personality Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
I looked at my companions, one after another, and saw from their flushed faces and damp brows that they were enduring equal torture.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Jane, I am not a gentle-tempered man—you forget that: I am not long- enduring; I am not cool and dispassionate.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Earth is thought to have gradually coalesced in fiery collisions of smaller planetoids – and those hellish conditions can now explain an enduring scientific mystery.
(Fiery Collisions That Gave Birth to Earth Could Have Evaporated 40% of Our World, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A disorder characterized by an enduring pattern of excessively intense and superficial emotionality, attention seeking behavior, seductive appearance and speech, self dramatization and/or theatrical behavior.
(Histrionic Personality Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
A disorder characterized by an enduring pattern of grandiose beliefs and arrogant behavior together with an overwhelming need for admiration and a lack of empathy for (and even exploitation of) others.
(Narcissistic Personality Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
