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Intrepidity vs Effrontery - What's the difference?

intrepidity | effrontery |

As nouns the difference between intrepidity and effrontery

is that intrepidity is the quality of being intrepid; bravery while effrontery is insolent and shameless audacity.

intrepidity

English

Noun

(intrepidities)
  • The quality of being intrepid; bravery.
  • *1877 , , page 11
    • which involve the sharpest hazards to life and honour and the highest instant decisions and intrepidities of action.

    Synonyms

    * (bravery) boldness, braveness, bravery, fearlessness, fortitude, intrepidness, undauntedness, valour

    Related terms

    *intrepid *intrepidness *trepidation

    effrontery

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Insolent and shameless audacity.
    • We even had the effrontery to suggest that he should leave the country.
  • (countable) An act of insolent and shameless audacity.
    • Any refusal to salute the president shall be counted as an effrontery .

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "effrontery")

    References

    * 2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised) , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198610572 * 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988 *