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English Dictionary: hardiness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for hardiness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hardiness n the property of being strong and healthy in constitution Synonym(s): robustness, hardiness, lustiness, validity 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" Synonym(s): boldness, daring, hardiness, hardihood Antonym(s): timidity, timorousness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hardiness \Har"diness\, n. 1. Capability of endurance. 2. Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance. --Spenser. Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness* is mother. --Shak. They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king. --Clarendon. 3. Hardship; fatigue. [Obs.] --Spenser.