temerity
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temerity
- /tɪˈmɛɹ.ɪ.ti/ UK
- /təˈmɛɹ.ɪ.ti/ UK
- /təˈmɛɹ.ə.ti/ US
Rhymes with -ɛɹəti
Where it comes from
From Middle English temerite, temeryte, from Old French temerité, from Latin temeritās (“chance, accident, rashness”), from temere (“by chance, casually, rashly”). By surface analysis, temer(arious) + -ity.
noun temerities · timerity
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Reckless boldness; foolish bravery.
1569, Thomas Pearson, trans., "The Second Paradox," in The booke of Marcus Tullius Cicero entituled Paradoxa Stoicorum, T. Marshe (London),
Neyther the spightfull temerity and rashnes of variable fortune, nor the envious hart burning and in iurious hatred of mine enemies shold be able once to damnif
Similar: audacity, foolhardiness, rashness, recklessness
- An act or case of reckless boldness. Draper, dear lad, had the illusion of an "intellectual sympathy" between them.... Draper's temerities would always be of that kind.
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Effrontery; impudence.
He had very nearly been guilty of the temerity of arrogating to himself another title in the presence of those he most respected.
Similar: brashness, cheek, gall, chutzpah · Opposite: cowardice, meekness
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noun reckless boldness
| Español | temeridad |
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| हिन्दी | दुस्साहस dussāhas |
| Português | temeridade |
| Français | témérité |
| Deutsch | Kühnheit, Unbesonnenheit, Verwegenheit |
| Italiano | temerità |
| Română | temeritate |
| Русский | де́рзость dérzostʹ, безрассу́дство bezrassúdstvo, опроме́тчивость oprométčivostʹ |
| العربية | تَهَوُّر tahawwur |
noun impudence
| Deutsch | Unverschämtheit, Frechheit, Unverfrorenheit, Dreistigkeit, Stirn |
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