noun. The act, quality, or power of withstanding hardship or stress.

noun. The state or fact of persevering.

noun. Continuing existence; duration.

noun. Continuance; duration.

noun. Continuance in bearing or suffering; the fact or state of enduring stress, hardship, pain, or the like; a holding out under adverse force or influence of any kind: as, the endurance of iron or timber under great strain; a person's endurance of severe affliction.

noun. Ability to endure; power of bearing or suffering without giving way; capacity for continuance under stress, hardship, or infliction; as, to test the endurance of a brand of steel; that is beyond endurance, or surpasses endurance.

noun. Delay; procrastination.

noun. [The meaning of the word in the above extract has been disputed, some thinking it equivalent to durance, confinement; others, to suffering.] Synonyms and Fortitude, etc. (see patience); permanence, persistence, continuance, suffering, sufferance, tolerance.

noun. A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.

noun. The act of bearing or suffering; a continuing under pain or distress without resistance, or without being overcome; sufferance; patience.

noun. The measure of a person's stamina or persistence.

noun. Ability to endure hardship.

noun. a state of surviving; remaining alive

noun. the power to withstand hardship or stress

"Even if you're genetically predisposed to see little improvement in endurance, "it doesn't mean that you don't get any benefit from exercise," Rankinen says."

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