Cockiness vs Boldness - What's the difference?
cockiness | boldness |
The state of being bold; courage.
* Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
presumptuousness
(typography) The relative weight of a font; the thickness of its strokes.
As nouns the difference between cockiness and boldness
is that cockiness is the quality of being cocky while boldness is the state of being bold; courage.boldness
English
(wikipedia boldness)Noun
(en-noun)- 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)