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From Middle French ténacité, from Latin tenācitās (whence -acity).

countable, uncountable The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness. Like the Cuscus of the Moluccas, the Galeopithecus feeds chiefly on leaves, and possesses a very voluminous stomach and long convoluted intestines. The brain is very small, and the animal possesses such remarkable tenacity of life, that it is exceedingly difficult to kill it by any ordinary means.
countable, uncountable The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
countable, uncountable The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.
countable, uncountable The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.
countable, uncountable The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.