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HARDIHOOD

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger

Example:

the plan required great hardiness of heart

Synonyms:

boldness; daring; hardihood; hardiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("hardihood" is a kind of...):

fearlessness (the trait of feeling no fear)

Attribute:

bold (fearless and daring)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hardihood"):

adventurousness; venturesomeness (the trait of being adventurous)

daredevilry; daredeviltry (boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior)

audaciousness; audacity; temerity (fearless daring)

brazenness; shamelessness (behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame)

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 Context examples: 

I was so ashamed to allude to a commonplace thing like my box, to a scholar and a master at Salem House, that we had gone some little distance from the yard before I had the hardihood to mention it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And so also, when the ring has become as extinct as the lists, we may understand that a broader philosophy would show that all things, which spring up so naturally and spontaneously, have a function to fulfil, and that it is a less evil that two men should, of their own free will, fight until they can fight no more than that the standard of hardihood and endurance should run the slightest risk of being lowered in a nation which depends so largely upon the individual qualities of her citizens for her defence.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)