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boldness

noun
/ˈboʊldnəs/US/ˈbəʊldnəs/UK

Etymology

From Middle English boldnesse, equivalent to bold + -ness. Cognate with Scots baldness, bauldness (“boldness”).

  1. inherited from boldnesse

Definitions

  1. The state of being bold

    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) […]

  2. presumptuousness

  3. The relative weight of a font

    The relative weight of a font; the thickness of its strokes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at boldness. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01boldness02courage03finds04find05directed06view07visual08depends09depend10achievement

A definitional loop anchored at boldness. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at boldness

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA