Hardiness vs Toughness - What's the difference?
hardiness | toughness |
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
* Clarendon
(obsolete) hardship; fatigue
(uncountable) The state of being tough
(physics, of a metal) Resistance to fracture when stressed
A formidable difficulty
As nouns the difference between hardiness and toughness
is that hardiness is the state of being hardy, especially (of a plant) of being resistant to cold or other environmental conditions while toughness is (uncountable) the state of being tough.hardiness
English
Noun
- Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever / Of hardiness is mother.
- They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king.
- (Spenser)