Flippancy vs Boldness - What's the difference?
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A disrespectful levity or pertness especially in respect to grave or sacred matters.
The state of being bold; courage.
* Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
presumptuousness
(typography) The relative weight of a font; the thickness of its strokes.
As nouns the difference between flippancy and boldness
is that flippancy is a disrespectful levity or pertness especially in respect to grave or sacred matters while boldness is the state of being bold; courage.flippancy
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(wikipedia boldness)Noun
(en-noun)- Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward)