audacity

audacity
/aw das"i tee/, n., pl. audacities.
1. boldness or daring, esp. with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions.
2. effrontery or insolence; shameless boldness: His questioner's audacity shocked the lecturer.
3. Usually, audacities. audacious acts or statements.
[1400-50; late ME audacite < L audac-, s. of audax daring (adj.) + -ite -ITY]
Syn. 1. nerve, spunk, grit, temerity, foolhardiness. 2. impudence, impertinence, brashness.
Ant. 1, 2. discretion, prudence.

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