Hardihood is a related term of stability.
As nouns the difference between hardihood and stability
is that
hardihood is unyielding boldness and daring; firmness in doing something that exposes one to difficulty, danger, or calumnity; intrepidness while
stability is the condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.
hardihood English
Noun
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Unyielding boldness and daring; firmness in doing something that exposes one to difficulty, danger, or calumnity; intrepidness.
* 1902 , Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness :
- 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.
* 1971 , John Morris Dorsey, Psychology of Emotion :
- Once endured it is enjoyed as my owndom. Elsewhere I refer to this process of enduring hardship as the only possible source of hardihood .
Excessive boldness; foolish daring; offensive assurance.
Related terms
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stability English
Noun
The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change
The tendency to recover from perturbations
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