Definitions
- Referring to a long-lasting or permanent quality or characteristic. - Describing a deep-seated belief or principle that guides one's actions and decisions. - Talking about a continuous or uninterrupted state of being.
- Referring to something that lasts a long time or persists despite challenges or difficulties. - Describing a quality or characteristic that remains unchanged over time. - Talking about a lasting impact or influence on people or society.
List of Similarities
- 1Both words describe qualities or characteristics that last a long time.
- 2Both words can be used to describe beliefs, principles, or values.
- 3Both words can be used as adjectives or gerunds/present participles.
What is the difference?
- 1Duration: Abiding emphasizes a permanent or continuous state, while enduring suggests persistence despite challenges or difficulties.
- 2Focus: Abiding focuses on the quality or characteristic itself, while enduring emphasizes the lasting impact or influence.
- 3Connotation: Abiding has a more positive connotation, suggesting a deep-seated and unchanging quality, while enduring can have a neutral or negative connotation, suggesting something that persists despite challenges or difficulties.
- 4Usage: Abiding is less common and more formal than enduring, which is more versatile and can be used in both formal and informal contexts.
Remember this!
While abiding and enduring share similarities in describing long-lasting qualities or characteristics, they differ in their duration, focus, connotation, usage, and etymology. Abiding emphasizes a permanent or continuous state, while enduring suggests persistence despite challenges or difficulties. Abiding focuses on the quality or characteristic itself, while enduring emphasizes the lasting impact or influence. Abiding has a more positive connotation, while enduring can have a neutral or negative connotation. Abiding is less common and more formal than enduring, which is more versatile and can be used in both formal and informal contexts. Finally, abiding comes from Old English, while enduring comes from Latin.
