Dauntlessness vs Hardiness - What's the difference?
dauntlessness | hardiness | Related terms |
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
* Clarendon
(obsolete) hardship; fatigue
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.hardiness
English
Noun
- Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever / Of hardiness is mother.
- They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king.
- (Spenser)