HARDINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hardiness mean? 

• HARDINESS (noun)
  The noun HARDINESS has 2 senses:

1. the property of being strong and healthy in constitution

2. the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger

  Familiarity information: HARDINESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARDINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being strong and healthy in constitution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

hardiness; lustiness; robustness

Hypernyms ("hardiness" is a kind of...):

strength (the property of being physically or mentally strong)

Derivation:

hardy (having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

boldness; daring; hardihood; hardiness

Context example:

the plan required great hardiness of heart

Hypernyms ("hardiness" is a kind of...):

fearlessness (the trait of feeling no fear)

Attribute:

bold (fearless and daring)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hardiness"):

adventurousness; venturesomeness (the trait of being adventurous)

daredevilry; daredeviltry (boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior)

audaciousness; audacity; temerity (fearless daring)

brazenness; shamelessness (behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame)

 Context examples 

John, cried the prince, with his cheek flushed and his eyes shining, this is a man of good courage and great hardiness.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the Houyhnhnms train up their youth to strength, speed, and hardiness, by exercising them in running races up and down steep hills, and over hard stony grounds; and when they are all in a sweat, they are ordered to leap over head and ears into a pond or river.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Indeed, he was a very worthy gentleman, of good courage, and great hardiness, and it grieves me that he should have come by such a hurt.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“But here is the cavalier of Germany, and by my soul! he looks like a man of great valor and hardiness. Let them run their full three courses, for the issue is over-great to hang upon one.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)