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Boldness vs Hardness - What's the difference?

boldness | hardness |

As nouns the difference between boldness and hardness

is that boldness is the state of being bold; courage while hardness is the quality of being hard.

boldness

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The state of being bold; courage.
  • * 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)
  • presumptuousness
  • (typography) The relative weight of a font; the thickness of its strokes.
  • Synonyms

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    hardness

    English

    Noun

  • The quality of being hard.
  • An instance of this quality; hardship.
  • See also

    * hardiness

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