Synonyms for audacity
ɔˈdæs ɪ tiau·dac·i·ty

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1. audacitynoun

   Insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional.

   Synonyms:
   outdaciousness, temerity, audaciousness

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1. audacity

   Audacity, in the sense here considered, is a reckless defiance of law, decency, public opinion, or personal rights, claims, or views, approaching the meaning of impudence or shamelessness, but always carrying the thought of the personal risk that one disregards in such defiance; the merely impudent or shameless person may take no thought of consequences; the audacious person recognizes and recklessly braves them. Hardihood defies and disregards the rational judgment of men. Effrontery (Latin effrons, barefaced, shameless) adds to audacity and hardihood the special element of defiance of considerations of propriety, duty, and respect for others, yet not to the extent implied in impudence or shamelessness. Impudence disregards what is due to superiors; shamelessness defies decency. Boldness is forward-stepping courage, spoken of with reference to the presence and observation of others; boldness, in the good sense, is courage viewed from the outside; but the word is frequently used in an unfavorable sense to indicate a lack of proper sensitiveness and modesty. Compare ASSURANCE; BRAVE.

   Synonyms:
   assurance, boldness, brass, effrontery, hardihood, impudence, insolence, shamelessness

   Antonyms:
   bashfulness, coyness, diffidence, modesty, sensitiveness, shrinking, shyness, timidity

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1. audacity

   Synonyms:
   boldness, rashness, temerity, recklessness, hardihood

   Antonyms:
   caution, self-preservation, timidity, calculation, forethought, foresight, diffidence, inadventurousness

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1. audacity, audaciousness, temeritynoun

   fearless daring

   Synonyms:
   temerity, audaciousness

2. audacity, audaciousnessnoun

   aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery

   "he had the audacity to question my decision"

   Synonyms:
   temerity, audaciousness

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1. • Boldness

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1. audacitynoun

   Synonyms:
   boldness, daring, fearlessness, courage, intrepidity, venturesomeness, hardihood

2. audacitynoun

   Synonyms:
   impudence, insolence, impertinence, sauciness, effrontery, presumptuousness, presumption, assurance, face, front, brass, CHEEK

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1. List of paraphrases for "audacity":

   boldness, 'audace, daring, courage, temerity, nerve

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1. Sean Edwards:

   You have an adult mother who had the audacity to leave her one-year-old in the custody with several other children.

2. Sara El-Amine:

   We are a group that really uniquely knows that electability is self-determining and that oftentimes it's the people with the boldest vision and the most unlikely candidacies early on who can really shift the field, elizabeth Warren really has the zest and the grit and the gumption and the audacity that we loved that President Barack Obama really embodied.

3. Abdul Aziz:

   Usama had good relations with my late father, thus we don’t support the American narrative, declaring him a terrorist, he did jihad, to implement Sharia around the world. So, for us he is an Islamist warrior. We title our library after his name with audacity.

4. John Dewey:

   Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

5. Natasha Eubanks:

   Having the audacity -- because that's what it is -- to exhibit self-sovereignty has always been a privilege reserved for men, especially white men, yet here is Meghan exhibiting this 'audacity' and it's being ... pushed forward by a white man who happens to be her husband.