HARDIHOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hardihood mean? 

• HARDIHOOD (noun)
  The noun HARDIHOOD has 1 sense:

1. the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger

  Familiarity information: HARDIHOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARDIHOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

boldness; daring; hardihood; hardiness

Context example:

the plan required great hardiness of heart

Hypernyms ("hardihood" is a kind of...):

fearlessness (the trait of feeling no fear)

Attribute:

bold (fearless and daring)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hardihood"):

adventurousness; venturesomeness (the trait of being adventurous)

daredevilry; daredeviltry (boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior)

audaciousness; audacity; temerity (fearless daring)

brazenness; shamelessness (behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame)

 Context examples 

Sir Nigel gave a long sigh as he came back from the dreams of chivalry and hardihood into which this strange woman's words had wafted him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And it was thought, and is, on the face of it, reasonable, that a struggle between two indomitable men, with thirty thousand to view it and three million to discuss it, did help to set a standard of hardihood and endurance.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If that were true the murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had not the hardihood to suggest to Dora's father that possibly we might even improve the world a little, if we got up early in the morning, and took off our coats to the work; but I confessed that I thought we might improve the Commons.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They are indeed, as he has said, our ancestors, but they are, if I may use the expression, our contemporary ancestors, who can still be found with all their hideous and formidable characteristics if one has but the energy and hardihood to seek their haunts.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A low growl greeted such approach; if any one had the hardihood to come nearer, the lips lifted, the naked fangs appeared, and the growl became a snarl—a snarl so terrible and malignant that it awed the stoutest of them, as it likewise awed the farmers' dogs that knew ordinary dog-snarling, but had never seen wolf-snarling before.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I hardly know where I found the hardihood thus to open a conversation with a stranger; the step was contrary to my nature and habits: but I think her occupation touched a chord of sympathy somewhere; for I too liked reading, though of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

All these things, with some knowledge of venerie, and of the management of horse, hawk and hound, with the grace and hardihood and courtesy which are proper to your age, will make you a fit squire for Sir Nigel Loring.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After dinner, when we were sitting by the fire, and I was meditating an escape to Peggotty without having the hardihood to slip away, lest it should offend the master of the house, a coach drove up to the garden-gate and he went out to receive the visitor.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If an enemy landed upon our shores it was then that, with our small army, we should be forced to fall back upon native valour trained into hardihood by the practice and contemplation of manly sports.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)