boldness

The state or quality of being bold.

Syn. -- Courage; bravery; intrepidity; dauntlessness; hardihood; assurance.

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noun

1. Willingness to take risks: adventuresomeness, adventurousness, audaciousness, audacity, daredevilry, daredeviltry, daring, daringness, venturesomeness, venturousness. See safety/danger.
2. The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident: assumption, audaciousness, audacity, brashness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, discourtesy, disrespect, effrontery, face, familiarity, forwardness, gall, impertinence, impudence, impudency, incivility, insolence, nerve, nerviness, overconfidence, pertness, presumptuousness, pushiness, rudeness, sassiness, sauciness. Informal brass, crust, sauce, uppishness, uppityness. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude, courtesy/discourtesy.

The noun has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger
  Synonyms: daring, hardihood
  Antonym: timidity (meaning #2)

Meaning #2: impudent aggressiveness
  Synonyms: nerve, brass, face, cheek

Meaning #3: the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly
  Synonym: strikingness

Quotes:

"Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution." - Francis Bacon

"Boldness is business is the first, second, and third thing." - H. G. Bohn

"Finite to fail, but infinite to venture." - Emily Dickinson

"Fortune befriends the bold." - John Dryden

"In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest." - Titus Livy

"Boldness is a mask for fear, however great." - F. L. Lucan

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