'audacity' definitions:
Definition of 'audacity'
From: WordNet
noun
Fearless daring [syn: audacity, audaciousness, temerity]
noun
Aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery; "he had the audacity to question my decision" [syn: audacity, audaciousness]
Synonyms of 'audacity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adventuresomeness,
- adventurousness,
- arrogance,
- assurance,
- audaciousness,
- balls,
- bold front,
- boldness,
- brash bearing,
- brashness,
- brass,
- brassiness,
- bravado,
- bravura,
- brazenness,
- brinkmanship,
- bumptiousness,
- cheek,
- cheekiness,
- cockiness,
- contempt,
- contemptuousness,
- contumely,
- courage,
- courage fou,
- courting disaster,
- daredevilry,
- daredeviltry,
- daring,
- daringness,
- defial,
- defiance,
- defying,
- derision,
- derring-do,
- despite,
- disdain,
- disregard,
- effrontery,
- enterprise,
- face,
- fire-eating,
- flirting with death,
- foolhardiness,
- forwardness,
- gall,
- going for broke,
- hardihood,
- hardiness,
- harebrainedness,
- hubris,
- impertinence,
- impudence,
- insolence,
- mettle,
- nerve,
- obtrusiveness,
- overboldness,
- overweening,
- overweeningness,
- pertness,
- playing with fire,
- presumption,
- presumptuousness,
- procacity,
- pushiness,
- resolution,
- sauciness,
- spirit,
- uppishness,
- uppityness,
- venturesomeness,
- venturousness