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Handiness vs Hardiness - What's the difference?

handiness | hardiness |

As nouns the difference between handiness and hardiness

is that handiness is the quality or state of being handy while hardiness is the state of being hardy, especially (of a plant) of being resistant to cold or other environmental conditions.

handiness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality or state of being handy.

    • hardiness

    English

    Noun

  • 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
    • Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever / Of hardiness is mother.
  • * Clarendon
    • They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king.
  • (obsolete) hardship; fatigue
    • (Spenser)

    See also

    * hardness