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Bravery vs Recklessness - What's the difference?

bravery | recklessness |

As nouns the difference between bravery and recklessness

is that bravery is being brave, courageousness while recklessness is the state or quality of being reckless or heedless, of taking unnecessary risks.

bravery

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (usually, uncountable) Being brave, courageousness.
  • (countable) A brave act.

    • Synonyms

    * (being brave) bravehood, braveness, courageousness, fearlessness; courage, pluck, valor; see also

    Related terms

    * bravado * brave * bravure English abstract nouns

    recklessness

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l) (obsolete)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or quality of being reckless or heedless, of taking unnecessary risks.
    • His recklessness repeatedly put him in danger.