persistence (n.)

• accordance
• adhesiveness
• age
• antiquity
• application
• assiduity
• assiduousness
• bullheadedness
• calm
• changelessness
• cohesiveness
• commitment
• concentration
• consistency
• consonance
• constancy
• continuance
• continuation
• continuity
• correspondence
• course
• decision
• decisiveness
• dedication
• definiteness
• determinateness
• determination
• devotion
• diligence
• doggedness
• durability
• duration
• earnestness
• endurance
• engrossment
• equanimity
• equilibrium
• evenness
• exigency
• extension
• fidelity
• firmness
• fixedness
• gluiness
• glutinosity
• grit
• gumminess
• hardening
• homogeneity
• immobility
• immovability
• immovableness
• immutability
• importunity
• indefatigability
• industriousness
• industry
• insistence
• insistency
• invariability
• invariableness
• lastingness
• lengthening
• longevity
• loyalty
• maintenance
• obduracy
• obstinacy
• patience
• perdurability
• perennation
• permanence
• permanency
• perpetuation
• perpetuity
• perseverance
• persistency
• pertinacity
• plodding
• pluck
• preoccupation
• pressure
• progress
• progression
• prolongation
• protraction
• purpose
• purposefulness
• pursuance
• quiescence
• relentlessness
• repetition
• resoluteness
• resolution
• resolve
• retention
• rigidity
• run
• sedulity
• sedulousness
• self-will
• seriousness
• sincerity
• single-mindedness
• snugness
• solidity
• stability
• stamina
• standing
• stasis
• steadfastness
• steadiness
• stickiness
• stubbornness
• survival
• sustenance
• tackiness
• tenaciousness
• tenacity
• tightness
• tirelessness
• torpor
• toughness
• unchangeability
• unchangingness
• uniformity
• unity
• urgency
• viscidity
• viscosity
• way
• will