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Boldness vs Plucking - What's the difference?

boldness | plucking |

As nouns the difference between boldness and plucking

is that boldness is the state of being bold; courage while plucking is (gerund of pluck) an act in which something is plucked.

As a verb plucking is

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boldness

English

(wikipedia 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

    * See also

    plucking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (gerund of pluck) An act in which something is plucked
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 27, author=The New York Times, title=Pop and Rock Listings, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Dirty Projectors builds elaborate “glitch operas” with stark pluckings of strings