hardiness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: har=di=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

hardiness, n. 

•  Capability of endurance.  [1913 Webster]
•  Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]

  "Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever
  Of hardiness is mother."  [1913 Webster]

  "They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king."  [1913 Webster]
•  Hardship; fatigue.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

hardiness

assurance, audacity, brashness, bulldog courage, cohesiveness, decisiveness, durability, endurance, energy, force, fortitude, gameness, gaminess, grittiness, guts, gutsiness, haleness, hardihood, hardness, heartiness, infrangibility, intestinal fortitude, lastingness, leatherlikeness, longevity, lustihood, lustiness, mettlesomeness, might, mightiness, nerve, nerviness, obstinacy, pertinaciousness, pertinacity, pluckiness, potency, power, powerfulness, resistance, resoluteness, resolution, robustness, ropiness, ruggedness, spunkiness, stalwartness, stamina, staying power, sticking power, stiffness, stoutness, strength, strength of will, stringiness, stubbornness, sturdiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, toughness, unbreakability, unbreakableness, vigor, vigorousness, viscidity, vitality