Synonyms for toughness
tough·ness

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1. stamina, staying power, toughnessnoun

   enduring strength and energy

   Synonyms:
   huskiness, staying power, ruggedness, stamina, temper, formidability

2. huskiness, ruggedness, toughnessnoun

   the property of being big and strong

   Synonyms:
   temper, gruffness, hardness, staying power, formidability, ruggedness, stamina, hoarseness, huskiness

3. temper, toughnessnoun

   the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking

   Synonyms:
   ruggedness, huskiness, irritability, surliness, biliousness, mood, stamina, peevishness, pique, humor, pettishness, staying power, temper, irritation, humour, formidability, snappishness

4. formidability, toughnessnoun

   impressive difficulty

   Synonyms:
   huskiness, staying power, ruggedness, stamina, temper, formidability

Matched Categories

1. • Difficulty
   • Elasticity
   • Endurance
   • Strength

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1. List of paraphrases for "toughness":

   hardness, tenacity, harshness, robustness, rigour, endurance

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How to use toughness in a sentence?

1. Barack Obama:

   The reason I love Nancy Pelosi is because Nancy Pelosi combines a passion for doing what's right for our country and our kids, along with a toughness that can't be matched on the Hill.

2. Draymond Green:

   I think he’s going to bring a toughness, a blue-collar mentality, just because Getty Images’s how he’s built. That’s how he’s raised. You have to be that way from Saginaw, i think it ’ll be a different toughness that they have n’t seen. And he’s going to command and require a different respect level that they have n’t really had. ... And I think that will bode well for that team.

3. G. K. Chesterton:

   Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

4. Hubert Davis:

   Their toughness, their will and their want-to in the second half I thought was really good. It wasn’t good enough, but I was proud of that and I told them that this is a great opportunity for us to learn.

5. Donald Trump:

   I have common sense. I know what has to be done, and we don't want to have a situation like Paris. And we don't want to have another World Trade Center, we don't want that. We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country or we're going to end up like a lot of the other places and we're not going to have a country left.