foolhardiness

Questions about foolhardiness

What does foolhardiness mean?

foolhardiness means "the trait of giving little thought to danger".

How many syllables are in foolhardiness?

foolhardiness has 4 syllables: fool-har-di-ness. The stress falls on "har".

What is another word for foolhardiness?

Close synonyms include recklessness, rashness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foolhardiness a common word?

foolhardiness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.