stick-to-it-iveness

or stick-to-it·ive·ness

[ stik-too-it-iv-nis ]
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nounInformal.
  1. determination and persistence, especially in spite of difficulties; perseverance: Call it stubbornness or stick-to-it-iveness, but she eventually won support for the proposal.

Origin of stick-to-it-iveness

1
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60; from the phrase stick to it + -ive + -ness

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