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hardiness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hardiness has 2 senses
- hardiness(n = noun.attribute) lustiness, robustness, validity - the property of being strong and healthy in constitution; Array is a kind of strength
- hardiness(n = noun.attribute) boldness, daring, hardihood - the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger; "the proposal required great boldness"; "the plan required great hardiness of heart" is a kind of fearlessness
Derived form adjective hardy1
has particulars: adventurousness, venturesomeness, daredevilry, daredeviltry, audaciousness, audacity, temerity, brazenness, shamelessness
CIDE DICTIONARY
hardiness, n.
- Capability of endurance. [1913 Webster]
- Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance. Spenser. [1913 Webster]"Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever
Of hardiness is mother." [1913 Webster]"They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king." [1913 Webster] - Hardship; fatigue. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
hardiness
assurance, audacity, brashness, bulldog courage, cohesiveness, decisiveness, durability, endurance, energy, force, fortitude, gameness, gaminess, grittiness, guts, gutsiness, haleness, hardihood, hardness, heartiness, infrangibility, intestinal fortitude, lastingness, leatherlikeness, longevity, lustihood, lustiness, mettlesomeness, might, mightiness, nerve, nerviness, obstinacy, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pluckiness, potency, power, powerfulness, resistance, resoluteness, resolution, robustness, ropiness, ruggedness, spunkiness, stalwartness, stamina, staying power, sticking power, stiffness, stoutness, strength, strength of will, stringiness, stubbornness, sturdiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, toughness, unbreakability, unbreakableness, vigor, vigorousness, viscidity, vitality
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