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Promptitude vs Boldness - What's the difference?

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Promptitude is a related term of boldness.


As nouns the difference between promptitude and boldness

is that promptitude is the quality of being prompt; alacrity while boldness is the state of being bold; courage.

promptitude

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being prompt; alacrity.

    • Synonyms

    * (quality of being prompt) promptness

    boldness

    English

    (wikipedia boldness)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The state of being bold; courage.
  • * Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
    • Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward)
  • presumptuousness
  • (typography) The relative weight of a font; the thickness of its strokes.

    • Synonyms

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