'Hardiness' definitions:
Definition of 'hardiness'
(from WordNet)
noun
The property of being strong and healthy in constitution [syn: robustness, hardiness, lustiness, validity]
noun
The trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger; "the proposal required great boldness"; "the plan required great hardiness of heart" [syn: boldness, daring, hardiness, hardihood] [ant: timidity, timorousness]
Definition of 'Hardiness'
From: GCIDE
- Hardiness \Har"di*ness\ (-d[i^]*n[e^]s), n.
- 1. Capability of endurance. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness is mother. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Hardship; fatigue. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hardiness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- assurance,
- audacity,
- brashness,
- bulldog courage,
- cohesiveness,
- decisiveness,
- durability,
- endurance,
- energy,
- force,
- fortitude,
- gameness,
- gaminess,
- grittiness,
- guts,
- gutsiness,
- haleness,
- hardihood,
- hardness,
- heartiness,
- infrangibility,
- intestinal fortitude,
- lastingness,
- leatherlikeness,
- longevity,
- lustihood,
- lustiness,
- mettlesomeness,
- might,
- mightiness,
- nerve,
- nerviness,
- obstinacy,
- pertinaciousness,
- pertinacity,
- pluckiness,
- potency,
- power,
- powerfulness,
- resistance,
- resoluteness,
- resolution,
- robustness,
- ropiness,
- ruggedness,
- spunkiness,
- stalwartness,
- stamina,
- staying power,
- sticking power,
- stiffness,
- stoutness,
- strength,
- strength of will,
- stringiness,
- stubbornness,
- sturdiness,
- tenaciousness,
- tenacity,
- toughness,
- unbreakability,
- unbreakableness,
- vigor,
- vigorousness,
- viscidity,
- vitality