different between boldness vs bravado

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bo?ldn?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??ldn?s/
• Hyphenation: bold?ness

Noun

boldness (usually uncountable, plural boldnesses)

1. The state of being bold; courage.
   • 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill

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

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:courage

Translations

Anagrams

• bondless

English

Alternative forms

• bravade (obsolete)

Etymology

From French bravade (“bragging or boasting”), from Italian bravata, from verb bravare (“brag, boast”), from bravo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b????v??do?/, /br??v??do?/
• Rhymes: -??d??

Noun

bravado (countable and uncountable, plural bravados or bravadoes)

1. A swaggering show of defiance or courage.
   • 1990 Amy Longsdorf, K.T. Oslin: Personality, Wit and Style To Spare", The Morning Call[1]

     Songs like "Hey Bobby", and "Do Ya" drip with innuendo and sexual bravado.

   • Rosa Mulholland, The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly

     For a bravado he had the organ taken down and conveyed to his father's house, where he had it put up in the chamber where it now stands. It was also for a bravado that he played on it every day. But, by?and?by, the amount of time which he spent at it daily began to increase rapidly.

2. A false show of courage. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (obsolete) A swaggerer; a braggart.

Translations

Verb

bravado (third-person singular simple present bravados, present participle bravadoing, simple past and past participle bravadoed)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To swagger; to brag.