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relentlessness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun relentlessness has 1 sense
- relentlessness(n = noun.attribute) inexorability, inexorableness - mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up; "the relentlessness or their pursuit" is a kind of mercilessness, unmercifulness
Derived forms adjective relentless2, adjective relentless1
THESAURUS
relentlessness
act of God, adamantness, application, ardor, assiduity, assiduousness, bulldog tenacity, certainty, commitment, concentration, constancy, cruelty, decidedness, decision, decisiveness, dedication, definiteness, determinateness, determination, determinedness, devotion, diligence, dogged perseverance, doggedness, dourness, earnestness, endurance, energeticalness, energy, engrossment, fate, fatefulness, fervor, fidelity, firmness, flintiness, force majeure, fundamentalism, grimness, hard-bittenness, hard-nosedness, hardness, harshness, heartlessness, immovability, immutability, implacability, impliability, inclemency, indefatigability, indefeasibility, industriousness, industry, inelasticity, ineluctability, inescapableness, inevasibleness, inevitability, inevitable accident, inevitableness, inexorability, inexorableness, inflexibility, insistence, insistency, intransigeance, intransigence, intransigency, intransigentism, irreconcilability, irrevocability, laboriousness, loyalty, mercilessness, necessity, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, orthodoxy, patience, patience of Job, permanence, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pitilessness, plodding, plugging, precisianism, predetermination, preoccupation, purism, puritanism, purpose, purposefulness, remorselessness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, resolvedness, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorism, rigorousness, ruthlessness, sedulity, sedulousness, self-will, seriousness, short shrift, sincerity, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slogging, stability, stamina, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, steeliness, sternness, stick-to-itiveness, stiff temper, stiffness, strenuousness, stubbornness, sureness, tenaciousness, tenacity, tender mercies, tirelessness, total commitment, toughness, unalterability, unavoidable casualty, unavoidableness, unbendingness, unchangeability, uncompassionateness, uncompromisingness, uncontrollability, undeflectability, unfeelingness, unforgivingness, ungivingness, unmercifulness, unpreventability, unrelentingness, unremittingness, unremorsefulness, unsparingness, unswerving attention, unsympatheticness, unyieldingness, vehemence, vis major, will, zealousness
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