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Noun toughness has 4 senses

• toughness(n = noun.attribute) stamina, staying power - enduring strength and energy; Array
is a kind of endurance
has particulars: legs

• toughness(n = noun.attribute) huskiness, ruggedness - the property of being big and strong; Array
is a kind of strength

• toughness(n = noun.attribute) temper - the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking; Array
is a kind of elasticity, snap

• toughness(n = noun.attribute) formidability - impressive difficulty; Array
is a kind of difficultness, difficulty
Derived forms adjective tough₉, adjective tough₂, adjective tough₇

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toughness

Spartanism, abstruseness, adamantness, adhesiveness, arduousness, astringency, austerity, authoritarianism, backbone, body, bothersomeness, bottom, bullheadedness, burdensomeness, callosity, callousness, chutzpah, clabbering, clamminess, clotting, coagulation, cohesiveness, colloidality, complexity, complication, concreteness, consistency, courage, curdling, decisiveness, demandingness, density, difficultness, difficulty, discipline, doughiness, dourness, durability, durity, endurance, energy, exactingness, firmness, flintiness, force, fortitude, gameness, gelatinity, gelatinousness, gluelikeness, gluiness, glutinosity, glutinousness, grimness, grit, gumlikeness, gumminess, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, hairiness, hard-bittenness, hard-nosedness, hardiness, hardness, hardness of heart, harshness, heart, heart of oak, heartiness, heaviness, immovability, immutability, impenetrability, implacability, impliability, incrassation, induration, inelasticity, inexorability, inflexibility, inspissation, intestinal fortitude, intransigeance, intransigence, intransigency, intransigentism, intricacy, irreconcilability, jellification, jellylikeness, laboriousness, lentor, lustihood, lustiness, mass, materiality, meticulousness, mettle, mettlesomeness, might, mightiness, moxie, mucilaginousness, nerve, obduracy, obstinacy, onerousness, oppressiveness, palpability, pastiness, persistence, persistency, pith, pluck, pluckiness, ponderability, potency, power, powerfulness, regimentation, relentlessness, resistance, restiveness, retention, rigid discipline, rigidity, rigor, rigorism, rigorousness, robustness, ropiness, ruggedness, severity, slabbiness, sliminess, snugness, solidity, soundness, spirit, spissitude, spunk, spunkiness, stability, stalwartness, stamina, staying power, steadiness, steeliness, sternness, stick-to-itiveness, stickiness, sticking power, stiff temper, stiffness, stodginess, stoniness, stout heart, stoutness, strength, strength of will, strenuousness, strictness, stringency, stringiness, stubbornness, sturdiness, substance, substantiality, substantialness, syrupiness, tackiness, tangibility, tenaciousness, tenacity, thickening, thickness, tightness, toilsomeness, treacliness, troublesomeness, true grit, unalterability, unbendingness, unchangeability, uncompromisingness, ungivingness, unrelentingness, unyieldingness, vigor, vigorousness, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness, vitality

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Coherence

N coherence, adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness, concretion accretion, conglutination, agglutination, agglomeration, aggregation, consolidation, set, cementation, sticking, soldering, connection, dependence, tenacity, toughness, stickiness, inseparability, inseparableness, bur, remora, conglomerate, concrete, cohesive, adhesive, adhering, cohering, tenacious, tough, sticky, united, unseparated, unsessile, inseparable, inextricable, infrangible, compact.

Tenacity

N tenacity, toughness, strength, (cohesion), grip, grasp, stickiness, (cohesion), sequacity, stubbornness (obstinacy), glue, cement, glutinousness, sequaciousness, viscidity, (semiliquidity), leather, white leather, whitleather, gristle, cartilage, unbreakability, tensile strength, tenacious, tough, strong, resisting, sequacious, stringy, gristly cartilaginous, leathery, coriaceous, tough as whitleather, stubborn, unbreakable, indivisible, atomic.

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