Fearlessness vs Hardiness - What's the difference?
fearlessness | 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
Fearlessness is a related term of hardiness.
As nouns the difference between fearlessness and hardiness
is that fearlessness is the quality of being fearless 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)
