hardiness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the property of being strong and healthy in constitution
    robustness; validity; lustiness.
  2. noun the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger
    boldness; daring; hardihood.
    • the proposal required great boldness
    • the plan required great hardiness of heart

WordNet

Har"di*ness noun
Definitions
  1. Capability of endurance.
  2. Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance. Spenser.
    Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness is mother. Shak.
    They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king. Clarendon.
  3. Hardship; fatigue. Obs. Spenser.

Webster 1913