Tranquillity vs Chutzpah - What's the difference?
tranquillity | chutzpah |
the state of being tranquil
the absence of disturbance; peacefulness
the absence of stress; serenity
the quality of calm such as that experienced in places with mainly natural features and activities, free from disturbance from manmade ones.
(slang) Nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion;
* 22/01/2007 , The Times,
* 12/11/2007 , John Scalzi, Whatever,
As nouns the difference between tranquillity and chutzpah
is that tranquillity is the state of being tranquil while chutzpah is (slang) nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion;.tranquillity
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Alternative forms
* tranquilityNoun
(en-noun)Usage notes
* More common spelling in the UK; less common in the US.Synonyms
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* *chutzpah
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Alternative forms
* khutzpah * khutspah * chutspah * khutspeNoun
(wikipedia chutzpah) (-)Modern Manners
- If the service is rotten and the meal a disaster, we should withhold a tip and explain why we are doing so. Few of us have the chutzpah to do this.
Your Creation Museum Report
- But seriously, the ability to just come out and put on a placard that the Jurassic era is temporally contiguous with the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt — well, there’s a word for that, and that word is chutzpah .