temerity, audacity, hardihood, effrontery, nerve, cheek, gall, chutzpah mean conspicuous or flagrant boldness. temerity suggests boldness arising from rashness and contempt of danger.

AUDACITY definition: boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions. See examples of audacity used in …

In response to disjuncture, a listener could experience anything from shock to delight - shock at the unexpectedness or incongruity, delight at the novelty or audacity.

Definition of audacity noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Fearless daring; intrepidity. 2. Bold or insolent heedlessness of restraints, as of those imposed by prudence, propriety, or convention. 3. An act or instance of intrepidity or insolent …

Audacity definition: Fearless daring; intrepidity.

The noun audacity developed from the Latin word audacitas, which means “boldness." So someone who shows audacity makes bold moves — and isn't afraid of the consequences. …

In English, 'audacity' was adopted in the late Middle Ages to describe a bold and confident disregard of ordinary rules and conventions, often with an element of daring or impudence. It …

Audacity is audacious behaviour. I was shocked at the audacity and brazenness of the gangsters.

au•dac•i•ty (ô das′ i tē), n., pl. -ties. boldness or daring, esp. with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions. effrontery or insolence; …