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Fearlessness vs Manfulness - What's the difference?

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Fearlessness is a related term of manfulness.


As nouns the difference between fearlessness and manfulness

is that fearlessness is the quality of being fearless while manfulness is the state of being manful.

fearlessness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being fearless.

    • Synonyms

    *big balls

    See also

    * courage

    manfulness

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • The state of being manful
  • *{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Past and Present, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He will at least have the manfulness to depart out of it, if not; to say: "I cannot move in thee, and be a man; like a wretched drift-log dressed in man's clothes and minister's clothes, doomed to a lot baser than belongs to man, I will not continue with thee, tumbling aimless on the Mother of Dead Dogs here:--Adieu!" }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Charles Kingsley, title=Westminster Sermons, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He only sees his own weakness, and want of life, of spirit, of manfulness , of power. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1825, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=The Life of Friedrich Schiller, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Nor were these sentiments, be it remembered, the mere boasting manifesto of a hot-brained inexperienced youth, entering on literature with feelings of heroic ardour, which its difficulties and temptations would soon deaden or pervert: they are the calm principles of a man, expressed with honest manfulness , at a period when the world could compare them with a long course of conduct. }}