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Perseverance vs Boldness - What's the difference?

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Perseverance is a related term of boldness.


As nouns the difference between perseverance and boldness

is that perseverance is perseverance (persistent determination to adhere to a course of action; insistence) while boldness is the state of being bold; courage.

perseverance

English

Alternative forms

* perseveraunce (archaic)

Noun

(-)
  • Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
  • Persistent determination to adhere to a plan of direction; insistence.
  • * 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
  • It had taken nine years from the evening that first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

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    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.
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