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Dauntlessness vs Hardiness - What's the difference?

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Dauntlessness is a related term of hardiness.


As nouns the difference between dauntlessness and hardiness

is that dauntlessness is the characteristic of being dauntless; fearlessness while hardiness is the state of being hardy, especially (of a plant) of being resistant to cold or other environmental conditions.

dauntlessness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The characteristic of being dauntless; fearlessness.
  • hardiness

    English

    Noun

  • The state of being hardy, especially (of a plant) of being resistant to cold or other environmental conditions.
  • (obsolete) hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance
  • * Shakespeare, Cymbeline
  • Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever / Of hardiness is mother.
  • * Clarendon
  • They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king.
  • (obsolete) hardship; fatigue
  • (Spenser)

    See also

    * hardness