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endurance
noun. bearing hardship; staying power
  • ability
  • allowance
  • backbone
  • bearing
  • capacity
  • continuing
  • cool
  • coolness
  • courage
  • enduring
  • forebearance
  • fortitude
  • grit
  • guts
  • gutsiness
  • heart
  • holding up
  • intestinal fortitude
  • mettle
  • moxie
  • patience
  • perseverance
  • persistence
  • pertinacity
  • pluck
  • resignation
  • resistance
  • resolution
  • restraint
  • spunk
  • stamina
  • standing
  • starch
  • strength
  • submission
  • sufferance
  • suffering
  • tenacity
  • tolerance
  • toleration
  • undergoing
  • vitality
  • will
  • withstanding

energy
noun. person's spirit and vigor
  • activity
  • animation
  • application
  • ardor
  • birr
  • dash
  • drive
  • effectiveness
  • efficacy
  • efficiency
  • endurance
  • enterprise
  • exertion
  • fire
  • force
  • forcefulness
  • fortitude
  • get-up-and-go
  • go
  • hardihood
  • initiative
  • intensity
  • juice
  • life
  • liveliness
  • might
  • moxie
  • muscle
  • operativeness
  • pep
  • pizzazz
  • pluck
  • potency
  • power
  • puissance
  • punch
  • spirit
  • spontaneity
  • stamina
  • steam
  • strength
  • toughness
  • tuck
  • vehemence
  • verve
  • vim
  • virility
  • vitality
  • vivacity
  • zeal
  • zest
  • zing
  • zip
  • élan

energy
noun. generated power
  • application
  • burn
  • conductivity
  • current
  • dynamism
  • electricity
  • force
  • friction
  • gravity
  • heat
  • horsepower
  • juice
  • kilowatts
  • magnetism
  • potential
  • pressure
  • radioactivity
  • rays
  • reaction
  • response
  • service
  • steam
  • strength
  • voltage
  • wattage

faculty
noun. ability, skill
  • adroitness
  • aptitude
  • aptness
  • bent
  • capability
  • capacity
  • cleverness
  • dexterity
  • facility
  • flair
  • forte
  • genius
  • gift
  • instinct
  • intelligence
  • knack
  • knowing way around
  • leaning
  • nose
  • peculiarity
  • penchant
  • pistol
  • power
  • predilection
  • proclivity
  • propensity
  • property
  • quality
  • readiness
  • reason
  • right stuff
  • sense
  • strength
  • talent
  • turn
  • what it takes
  • wits

firmness
noun. immovability
  • durability
  • solidity
  • soundness
  • stability
  • steadiness
  • strength
  • substantiality
  • tautness
  • tension
  • tightness

firmness
noun. resolution, resolve
  • constancy
  • decidedness
  • decision
  • determination
  • fixedness
  • fixity
  • inflexibility
  • obduracy
  • obstinacy
  • purposefulness
  • purposiveness
  • staunchness
  • steadfastness
  • strength
  • strictness

fitness
noun. good condition
  • fettle
  • good health
  • health
  • kilter
  • repair
  • robustness
  • shape
  • strength
  • trim
  • vigor

force
noun. physical energy, power
  • arm
  • brunt
  • clout
  • coercion
  • compulsion
  • conscription
  • constrait
  • draft
  • duress
  • dynamism
  • effort
  • enforcement
  • exaction
  • extortion
  • full head of steam
  • fury
  • horsepower
  • impact
  • impetus
  • impulse
  • might
  • momentum
  • muscle
  • pains
  • potency
  • potential
  • pow
  • pressure
  • punch
  • push
  • sinew
  • sock
  • speed
  • steam
  • stimulus
  • strain
  • strength
  • stress
  • strong arm
  • stuff
  • subjection
  • tension
  • trouble
  • velocity
  • vigor
  • violence
  • what it takes

forte
noun. person's strong point
  • ability
  • ableness
  • aptitude
  • competence
  • effectiveness
  • efficiency
  • eminency
  • faculty
  • gift
  • long suit
  • medium
  • métier
  • oyster
  • speciality
  • strength
  • strong suit
  • talent
  • thing
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Word Origin & History

strength O.E. strengþu "power, force, vigor, moral resistance," from P.Gmc. *strangitho (cf. O.H.G. strengida "strength"), in gradational relationship to the root of strong. Verb strengthen is recorded from c.1300.

Example Sentences for strength

I know, better than you possibly can, what reasons I have to trust the strength of his affection.

He was still exerting his strength to the utmost when the whistle of the locomotive was heard.

He threw himself against the rock and pushed with all the strength he could command.

It increases in strength and warmth, blowing with a mighty roar.

Haley had grasped him by the shoulder, and in his grasp the boy's strength was nothing.

Would he be strong or weak; and what would be weakness, and what strength, in a position so strange?

Be happy, and rejoice in your weakness—but turn now to the strong for strength.

You have summoned me in my weakness; you must sustain me by your strength.

Cannot our griefs come first, while we have strength to bear them?

From this strength we have contributed to the recovery and progress of the world.

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