persistences

Acts of enduring

Persistences is the plural of persistence, the quality of continuing steadily despite obstacles or opposition.

The plural appears mainly in technical or philosophical contexts where multiple instances or types are distinguished: The study examined the persistences of various cultural practices across generations.

In computing, persistences may refer to different methods of storing data beyond a session's end.

determination

tenacities

Stubborn refusals to quit

resoluteness · obstinacies · firmnesses · grit · determinedness · single-mindedness · bullheadedness · pertinacity · purposefulness · resolve

memory

retentions

Acts of keeping possession

residues · imprints · afterimages · holdovers · carryovers · vestiges · impressions · recollections · remembrances · hauntings

temporal

endurances

Capacities to keep going

longevities · permanences · survivals · constancies · perpetuations · remainders · continuances · extensions · maintenances · preservations

phenomena

anomalies

Departures from expected patterns

occurrences · manifestations · presences · existences · instances · continuities · regularities · recurrences · repetitions · cycles

computing

data

Facts for analysis

  • storageSpace for keeping goods
  • databasesOrganized electronic information collections
  • savesStores or rescues

caching · serializations · backups · writes · states · sessions · cookies · logs · archives · snapshots

Opposites
continuation vs. cessation

persistencesabandonments

Acts of forsaking completely

cessations · terminations · discontinuances · discontinuations · stoppages

steadfastness vs. yielding

persistencescapitulations

Acts of giving in

surrenders · submissions · acquiescences · abandonments · renunciations

durability vs. transience

persistencestransiences

Qualities of being temporary

impermanences · fleetingness · brevities · temporariness · momentariness

Phrases
Family

persistence, persistency

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