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usually uncountable, plural doggednesses
The state of being dogged; persistence; perseverance; tenacity; stubbornness. quotations examples
At one time it looked as though he could not live more than a few hours, and I am convinced that it was only through the Dutchman's doggedness that he pulled through.
1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 26”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […]
(obsolete) sullenness; moroseness