Hardihood vs Perseverance - What's the difference?
hardihood | perseverance | Related terms |
Unyielding boldness and daring; firmness in doing something that exposes one to difficulty, danger, or calumnity; intrepidness.
* 1902 , Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness :
* 1971 , John Morris Dorsey, Psychology of Emotion :
Excessive boldness; foolish daring; offensive assurance.
Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
Persistent determination to adhere to a plan of direction; insistence.
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
Hardihood is a related term of perseverance.
As nouns the difference between hardihood and perseverance
is that hardihood is unyielding boldness and daring; firmness in doing something that exposes one to difficulty, danger, or calumnity; intrepidness while perseverance is perseverance (persistent determination to adhere to a course of action; insistence).hardihood
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Noun
(-)- Their talk, however, was the talk of sordid buccaneers: it was reckless without hardihood , greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage; there was not an atom of foresight or of serious intention in the whole batch of them, and they did not seem aware these things are wanted for the work of the world.
- Once endured it is enjoyed as my owndom. Elsewhere I refer to this process of enduring hardship as the only possible source of hardihood .
perseverance
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Alternative forms
* perseveraunce (archaic)Noun
(-)- It had taken nine years from the evening that first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
