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Brazenness vs Chutzpah - What's the difference?

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Brazenness is a related term of chutzpah.


As nouns the difference between brazenness and chutzpah

is that brazenness is the characteristic of being brazen while chutzpah is (slang) nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion;.

brazenness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The characteristic of being brazen.
  • chutzpah

    English

    Alternative forms

    * khutzpah * khutspah * chutspah * khutspe

    Noun

    (wikipedia chutzpah) (-)
  • (slang) Nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion;
  • * 22/01/2007 , The Times, Modern Manners
  • If the service is rotten and the meal a disaster, we should withhold a tip and explain why we are doing so. Few of us have the chutzpah to do this.
  • * 12/11/2007 , John Scalzi, Whatever, Your Creation Museum Report
  • But seriously, the ability to just come out and put on a placard that the Jurassic era is temporally contiguous with the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt — well, there’s a word for that, and that word is chutzpah .

    See also

    * cheek (n.), cheekiness (n.), cheeky (adj.), immortal rind (n.)

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