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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Endurance \En*dur"ance\, noun [Cf. OF. endurance. See {Endure}.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
endurance
noun
1: the power to withstand hardship or stress; "the marathon tests a runner's endurance"
2: a state of surviving; remaining alive [syn: {survival}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
157 Moby Thesaurus words for "endurance": abidingness, acceptance, age, antiquity, application, assiduity, assiduousness, bulldog tenacity, changelessness, concentration, constancy, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, decisiveness, defeat of time, defiance of time, diligence, diuturnity, dogged perseverance, doggedness, durability, durableness, duration, energy, engrossment, extension, fidelity, firmness, fixedness, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness, force, fortitude, frozenness, guts, gutsiness, hardening, hardiness, heartiness, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, indefatigability, indulgence, industriousness, industry, insistence, insistency, intestinal fortitude, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, lastingness, lengthening, lenience, leniency, lifetime, long standing, long-lastingness, long-livedness, long-sufferance, long-suffering, longanimity, longevity, loyalty, lustihood, lustiness, maintenance, might, mightiness, obstinacy, patience, patience of Job, patientness, perdurability, perennation, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, perpetuation, perpetuity, perseverance, persistence, persistency, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, plodding, plugging, potency, power, powerfulness, preoccupation, progress, progression, prolongation, protraction, pursuance, quiescence, relentlessness, repetition, resolution, rigidity, robustness, ruggedness, run, sedulity, sedulousness, self-control, single-mindedness, singleness of purpose, slogging, solidity, stability, stalwartness, stamina, standing, stasis, staying power, steadfastness, steadiness, stick-to-itiveness, sticking power, stoicism, stoutness, straight course, strength, strength of will, stubbornness, sturdiness, sufferance, survival, survivance, sustained action, sustenance, sweet reasonableness, tenaciousness, tenacity, tirelessness, tolerance, toleration, torpor, toughness, unchangeability, unchangingness, uninterrupted course, unremittingness, unswerving attention, vigor, vigorousness, vitality, waiting game, waiting it out, way
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