boldness
nounUS /ˈboʊldnəs/ · UK /ˈbəʊldnəs/
Etymology From Middle English boldnesse, equivalent to bold + -ness. Cognate with Scots baldness, bauldness (“boldness”).
1
Usually The state of being bold; courage.
- Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill:
2
Usually presumptuousness
3
Media, Publishing, Typography Usually The relative weight of a font; the thickness of its strokes.
- Derived terms
- overboldness