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indefatigability

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being indefatigable; unweariedness; persistency.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state of being indefatigable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Tirelessness; persistence; stamina.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun tireless determination

Etymologies

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From in- + de- + fatigue + -ability.

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Examples

  • * Seeing as this had to be conveyed to Saddam via a translator, using the word indefatigability was a bit dangerous, wasnt it?

    What's Going On Mark Steel 2009

  • If it is indefatigability you are after, try Sky's Super League, where commentators Eddie and Stevo never tire of extending metaphors beyond breaking point.

    Women's sporting emancipation could use a famous hot dog or two 2011

  • Strong, proud and human – no flipper for her, though her feet are draped with seaweed – this mermaid's jaw suggests the same patient indefatigability as that of the town she symbolises.

    Folkestone Triennial – review 2011

  • Later, when the East End came under bombardment during the blitz, the courage of its people came to symbolise British indefatigability.

    How power, money and art are shifting to the East End 2011

  • To write well about history you do not need a Ph.D., just a few rare but accessible qualities: insatiable curiosity, critical intellect, disciplined imagination, indefatigability in the pursuit of truth and a slightly weird vocation for trying to get to know dead people by studying the sources they have left us.

    Faulty Navigators Felipe Fernández-Armesto 2011

  • Strong, proud and human – no flipper for her, though her feet are draped with seaweed – this mermaid's jaw suggests the same patient indefatigability as that of the town she symbolises.

    Folkestone Triennial – review 2011

  • Yes the moniker "entrepreneur" connotes innovation and indefatigability.

    Wake-Up Call For Newly Hatched Entrepreneurs 2010

  • Despite their indefatigability in itemizing the rhetorical moves, the ancients stopped short of so antihumanist a line.

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • Despite their indefatigability in itemizing the rhetorical moves, the ancients stopped short of so antihumanist a line.

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • Yes the moniker "entrepreneur" connotes innovation and indefatigability.

    Wake-Up Call For Newly Hatched Entrepreneurs 2010

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  • The ability to never feel fatiqued, tired, or undetermined; quite assiduous.

    May 16, 2008

  • Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability!

    - George Galloway to Saddam Hussein

    May 16, 2008

  • Indefatigibility. It makes me a little tired and nauseous getting through all the stressed syllables in this word.

    May 14, 2015