49 粘り Stickiness

Part of Speech

Noun

ねばり

一生懸命粘り強く努力すればいつかは報われると思っていましたが、それは間違いでした。

I believed hard work and persistent efforts would pay off some day, but it was wrong.

If 粘る is "to be sticky" then the noun version is stickiness.

The reading comes from 粘る.