Fortitude vs Boldness - What's the difference?
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Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity.
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(archaic) Physical strength.
* 1604 , , Othello , act 1, sc. 3:
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.
Fortitude is a related term of boldness.
As nouns the difference between fortitude and boldness
is that fortitude is mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity while boldness is the state of being bold; courage.fortitude
English
Noun
(en noun)- . . . I am able now, methinks,
- Out of a fortitude of soul I feel,
- To endure more miseries.
- I shall soon have need for all my fortitude , as I am on the point of separation from my own daughter.
- She may be saved by your efforts, by your resource and fortitude bearing up against the heavy weight of guilt and failure.
The Strategist," Time :
- Mitt Romney . . . charges that Obama is an appeaser who apologizes for America, lacks fortitude and is "tentative, indecisive, timid and nuanced."
- DUKE OF VENICE: The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes for
- Cyprus. Othello, the fortitude of the place is best
- known to you.
Synonyms
* (mental or emotional strength) inner strength, moxie, resolveboldness
English
(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)