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 and divides as fool-har-di-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.