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stickability colloq.|stɪkəˈbɪlɪtɪ| [f. stick v.1 + ability.] Capacity for endurance, persistence, perseverance, staying power.
1888Voice (N.Y.) 10 May 7/3 Stickability..is the most important ability a farmer can possess. 1905British Weekly 28 May 193/2 To be able to take rebuffs happily and still go on requires, to use a coined word, ‘stickability’. 1922Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 634/2 The foreigner has supplanted the middle and lower class Chilian in nearly every branch of industry in which the quality best described as ‘stickability’ is required. 1962Daily Tel. 17 Aug. 18/1 All too many lack any degree of ‘stickability’ and flit from job to job like butterflies. 1976P. Donovan Relig. Lang. iv. 45 Those engaged in such activities get their stickability..from the quite reasonable assumption that unless someone persists.., there is little chance of any discovery being made. |