boldness

Questions about boldness

What is another word for boldness?

It depends which boldness you mean. In the sense “the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger”, the synonyms are daring, hardiness, hardihood. Across all 3 senses there are 8 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of boldness?

The recorded antonym is timidity. Opposites are sense-specific too: this page shows which meaning each one is the opposite of, because a word rarely has a single opposite that holds for all of its senses.

Why are the synonyms for boldness split into groups?

Because boldness carries 3 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for boldness come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of boldness

• Full entry for boldnessAll 3 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for boldnessWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.