'Relentlessness' definitions:
Definition of 'relentlessness'
From: WordNet
noun
Mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up; "the relentlessness or their pursuit" [syn: relentlessness, inexorability, inexorableness]
Definition of 'Relentlessness'
From: GCIDE
- Relentless \Re*lent"less\, a. Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism. [1913 Webster]
- For this the avenging power employs his darts, . . . Thus will persist, relentless in his ire. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] -- {Re*lent"less*ly}, adv. -- {Re*lent"less*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'relentlessness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- act of God,
- adamantness,
- application,
- ardor,
- assiduity,
- assiduousness,
- bulldog tenacity,
- certainty,
- commitment,
- concentration,
- constancy,
- cruelty,
- decidedness,
- decision,
- decisiveness,
- dedication,
- definiteness,
- determinateness,
- determination,
- determinedness,
- devotion,
- diligence,
- dogged perseverance,
- doggedness,
- dourness,
- earnestness,
- endurance,
- energeticalness,
- energy,
- engrossment,
- fate,
- fatefulness,
- fervor,
- fidelity,
- firmness,
- flintiness,
- force majeure,
- fundamentalism,
- grimness,
- hard-bittenness,
- hard-nosedness,
- hardness,
- harshness,
- heartlessness,
- immovability,
- immutability,
- implacability,
- impliability,
- inclemency,
- indefatigability,
- indefeasibility,
- industriousness,
- industry,
- inelasticity,
- ineluctability,
- inescapableness,
- inevasibleness,
- inevitability,
- inevitable accident,
- inevitableness,
- inexorability,
- inexorableness,
- inflexibility,
- insistence,
- insistency,
- intransigeance,
- intransigence,
- intransigency,
- intransigentism,
- irreconcilability,
- irrevocability,
- laboriousness,
- loyalty,
- mercilessness,
- necessity,
- obduracy,
- obdurateness,
- obstinacy,
- orthodoxy,
- patience,
- patience of Job,
- permanence,
- perseverance,
- persistence,
- persistency,
- pertinaciousness,
- pertinacity,
- pitilessness,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- precisianism,
- predetermination,
- preoccupation,
- purism,
- puritanism,
- purpose,
- purposefulness,
- remorselessness,
- resoluteness,
- resolution,
- resolve,
- resolvedness,
- rigidity,
- rigidness,
- rigor,
- rigorism,
- rigorousness,
- ruthlessness,
- sedulity,
- sedulousness,
- self-will,
- seriousness,
- short shrift,
- sincerity,
- single-mindedness,
- singleness of purpose,
- slogging,
- stability,
- stamina,
- staying power,
- steadfastness,
- steadiness,
- steeliness,
- sternness,
- stick-to-itiveness,
- stiff temper,
- stiffness,
- strenuousness,
- stubbornness,
- sureness,
- tenaciousness,
- tenacity,
- tender mercies,
- tirelessness,
- total commitment,
- toughness,
- unalterability,
- unavoidable casualty,
- unavoidableness,
- unbendingness,
- unchangeability,
- uncompassionateness,
- uncompromisingness,
- uncontrollability,
- undeflectability,
- unfeelingness,
- unforgivingness,
- ungivingness,
- unmercifulness,
- unpreventability,
- unrelentingness,
- unremittingness,
- unremorsefulness,
- unsparingness,
- unswerving attention,
- unsympatheticness,
- unyieldingness,
- vehemence,
- vis major,
- will,
- zealousness