Indurance vs. Endurance: What's the Difference?
Indurance is an obsolete term meaning permanence or constancy, while endurance refers to the ability to withstand hardship or stress over time.
Indurance and Endurance Definitions
Indurance
Obsolete form of endurance
Endurance
The act, quality, or power of withstanding hardship or stress
A marathon tests a runner's endurance.
Indurance
See Endurance.
Endurance
The state or fact of persevering
Through hard work and endurance, we will complete this project.
Endurance
Continuing existence; duration.
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Endurance
The measure of a person's stamina or persistence.
He has great endurance: he ran a marathon and then cycled home.
Endurance
Ability to endure hardship.
Endurance
(nautical) The length of time that a ship's rations will supply
Endurance
A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.
Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession.
Endurance
The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience.
Their fortitude was most admirable in their patience and endurance of all evils, of pain and of death.
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Endurance
The power to withstand hardship or stress;
The marathon tests a runner's endurance
Endurance
A state of surviving; remaining alive
