'hardiness' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective which means the ability to survive difficult or unpleasant conditions. Example sentence: The hardiness of the tree enabled it to survive the dry season.
If strains differ in hardiness, the less hardy have death rates higher by a constant multiple at all ages, as shown by the parallel Gompertz functions.
But I was also struck by the hardiness of this pre-suffragette, pre-Gore-Tex woman who didn't blanch at 4am alarm calls, 20-mile hikes and still dressing for dinner.
Many letters, diaries and sketches have survived; Mr Matthews has tracked them down, in archives ranging from Estonia to Japan (where Rezanov tried in vain to open trade, and later launched a private war).The picture is of intellectual endeavour, personal hardiness, patriotism and vicious intrigue.
Standard & Poor's, a credit-rating agency, gives Koc a higher rating than Turkey itself.Now, after a plunge of Turkey's lira made the central bank double interest rates to prop up the currency, the two groups have another opportunity to demonstrate their hardiness.
By setting Elizabeth's tale in the context of British naval power and trade, Ms Colley allows the reader to vault the pioneering life of an obscure woman not even an image survives into a grander tale of physical hardiness and surprising moral choices.
The few people still remaining in the area are mostly ranchers, some of whose families have been there for generations.But despite their hardiness, the remaining ranchers now worry about a foe more threatening than dust and drought America's armed forces.
It is impossible to ignore apartheid's injustices: it's also impossible not to admire the sheer stubborn hardiness of these people.
His intimates nicknamed him "Slow .Custer also overestimated the stamina and hardiness of his troops.
Comparison of life tables between mouse strains of a single species indicates that the strain differences result primarily from differences in age-independent hardiness factors.
A 2003 study from the Ohio State University, in which wild sunflowers were experimentally cross-pollinated with genetically modified Bt sunflowers, suggests that modified genes in cultivated crops may drift into closely related populations and increase the hardiness of these plants, including potential weed species.
Still others may be at an advantage during the long winter months, because they increase the population's hardiness, or ability to withstand the inclement conditions that kill most members of the other genotypes.
