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boldness
English
Etymology
From Middle English boldnesse, equivalent to bold +? -ness. Cognate with Scots baldness, bauldness (“boldness”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?bo?ldn?s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b??ldn?s/
- Hyphenation: bold?ness
Noun
boldness (usually uncountable, plural boldnesses)
- The state of being bold; courage.
- 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
- Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]
- 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
- presumptuousness
- (typography) The relative weight of a font; the thickness of its strokes.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:courage
Translations
Anagrams
- bondless
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tenacity
English
Etymology
tenac(ious) +? -ity, from Middle French ténacité, from Latin ten?cit?s.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t??næs.?.ti/
- (General American) IPA(key): /t??næs?ti/
- Hyphenation: tena?city
Noun
tenacity (countable and uncountable, plural tenacities)
- The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.
- 2009, Jorge Cham, PHD Comics: Softball: younger and faster:
- — Our opponents may be younger, faster and less out of shape than we are, but we have something they’ll never have!
- — Tenure?
- — Tenacity!
- 2009, Jorge Cham, PHD Comics: Softball: younger and faster:
- The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
- The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.
- The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.
- (physics) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
Synonyms
- (state of being tenacious): tenaciousness, determination, persistency, retentiveness, stubbornness
- (quality keeping bodies together): cohesiveness
- (quality making bodies adhere): adhesiveness, viscosity
Antonyms
- (quality keeping bodies together): brittleness, fragility, mobility
Related terms
- tenacious
- tenaciously
Translations
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