hardihood

[ hahr-dee-hood ]

noun

1. boldness or daring; courage.
2. audacity or impudence.
3. strength; power; vigor:

   the hardihood of youth.

4. hardy spirit or character; determination to survive; fortitude:

   the hardihood of early settlers.

hardihood

/ ˈhɑːdɪˌhʊd /

noun

1. courage, daring, or audacity

Word History and Origins

Origin of hardihood¹

First recorded in 1625–35; hardy ¹ + -hood

Example Sentences

All week the “atmospheric river” took huge dragon bites out of local coastlines, but the 49ers practiced outside in an exhibition of prideful, defiant hardihood.

From Washington Post

He has faith and the hardihood of being in the prime of life, but even Letlow at Christmas was taken away, temporarily, from his lovely young family by this pandemic.

From Washington Times

“And yet Andrew Johnson, with unblushing hardihood, undertook to rule them by his own power alone.”

From The New Yorker

From Roosevelt on, presidents have interested themselves in football as the receptacle of America’s values and basic hardihood.

From Washington Post

In what is left, let all who fight the Enemy in their fashion be at one, and keep hope while they may, and after hope still the hardihood to die free.’

From Literature