Fortitude vs Guts - What's the difference?

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Fortitude is a related term of guts.

As nouns the difference between fortitude and guts

is that fortitude is mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity while guts is .

fortitude

English

Noun

(en noun)

Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity.

* 1612 , , King Henry VIII , act 3, sc. 2:

. . . I am able now, methinks,

Out of a fortitude of soul I feel,

To endure more miseries.

* , ch. 1:

I shall soon have need for all my fortitude , as I am on the point of separation from my own daughter.

* 1906 , , The Mirror of the Sea , ch. 21:

She may be saved by your efforts, by your resource and fortitude bearing up against the heavy weight of guilt and failure.

* 2012 Jan. 30, , " The Strategist," Time :

Mitt Romney . . . charges that Obama is an appeaser who apologizes for America, lacks fortitude and is "tentative, indecisive, timid and nuanced."

(archaic) Physical strength.

* 1604 , , Othello , act 1, sc. 3:

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, resolve

guts

English

(wikipedia guts)

Noun

(head)

The entrails or contents of the abdomen.

(slang) Courage; determination.

:* It must have taken some guts to speak in front that audience.

:* She doesn't take any nonsense from anyone—she's got guts .

(slang) Content, substance.

:* His speech had no guts in it.

Synonyms

* (entrails) entrails, guttings, innards, insides, viscera * (courage) balls, nerve, pluck, big balls

Verb

(es)

(informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out ).

He gutsed out a 6-1 win.

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