Word Meanings - ASSIDUITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence. I have, with much pains and assiduity, qualified myself for a nomenclator. Addison. 2. Studied and persevering attention to a person; -- usually

Additional info about word: ASSIDUITY

1. Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence. I have, with much pains and assiduity, qualified myself for a nomenclator. Addison. 2. Studied and persevering attention to a person; -- usually in the plural.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASSIDUITY)

• Diligence
• Care
• assiduity
• attention
• application
• heed
• industry
• Industry
• Activity
• toil
• diligence
• perseverance

Related words: (words related to ASSIDUITY)

• PERSEVERANCE
  Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism. Syn. -- Persistence; steadfastness; constancy; steadiness; pertinacity. (more info)
• ACTIVITY
  The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness.
• DILIGENCE
  Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings. To do one's diligence, give diligence, use diligence, to exert one's self; to make interested
• ASSIDUITY
  1. Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence. I have, with much pains and assiduity, qualified myself for a nomenclator. Addison. 2. Studied and persevering attention to a person; -- usually
• INDUSTRY
  Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor. Syn. -- Diligence; assiduity; perseverance; activity; laboriousness; attention. See Diligence. (more info) 1. Habitual
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• ATTENTION
  1. The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; exclusive or special consideration; earnest consideration, thought, or regard; obedient or affectionate heed; the
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• SELF-ACTIVITY
  The quality or state of being self-active; self-action.
• NONATTENTION
  Inattention.
• ATTRACTIVITY
  The quality or degree of attractive power.
• INDILIGENCE
  Want of diligence. B. Jonson.
• MISAPPLICATION
  A wrong application. Sir T. Browne.
• DISASSIDUITY
  Want of as siduity or care. Sir H. Wotton.
• COACTIVITY
  Unity of action.
• INAPPLICATION
  Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence.
• INATTENTION
  Want of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect. Novel lays attract our ravished ears; But old, the mind inattention hears. Pope. Syn. -- Inadvertence; heedlessness; negligence; carelessness; disregard; remissness;
• INACTIVITY
  1. The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter. 2. Idleness; habitual indisposition to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness. The gloomy inactivity of despair. Cook.