endurance Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun the power to withstand hardship or stress
- the marathon tests a runner's endurance
noun a state of surviving; remaining alive
survival.

Cf. OF. endurance. See Endure.

A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.
Slurring with an evasive answer the question concerning the endurance of his own possession. Sir W. Scott.
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. Sir W. Temple.
Syn. -- Suffering; patience; fortitude; resignation.