Hardiness vs Toughness - What's the difference?

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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

  • 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
    • Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever / Of hardiness is mother.
  • * Clarendon
    • They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king.
  • (obsolete) hardship; fatigue
    • (Spenser)

    See also

    * hardness

    toughness

    English

    (wikipedia toughness)

    Noun

    (es)
  • (uncountable) The state of being tough
  • (physics, of a metal) Resistance to fracture when stressed
  • A formidable difficulty

    • Derived terms

    * graph toughness

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