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. Attorney Casey Yontz:

   To think they would have the audacity to think that it’s OK to write a thought like that in an email says a lot about what is going on over there.

2. Arthur Mitchell:

   Can you imagine the audacity to take an African American and Diana Adams, the essence and purity of Caucasian dance, and to put them together on the stage ? everybody was against him. He knew what he was going against, and he said,' You know my dear, this has got to be perfect.'.

3. Attorney Casey Yontz:

   This is one of the most egregious emails I’ve seen in my career, to think they would have the audacity to think that it’s OK to write a thought like that in an email says a lot about what is going on over there.

4. Sean Edwards:

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

5. The Pope:

   Those who lose their inner serenity, their vivacity and audacity, to hide behind their papers, becoming like procedural machines rather than men of God. This is dangerous to lose human sensitivity, so necessary in order to cry with those who cry and enjoy with those who enjoy.