hardiness
hardiness noun: the quality of being able to withstand fatigue and hardship; (of a plant) the quality of being resistant to cold or other environmental conditions.
Noun
hardiness (countable and uncountable, plural hardinesses)
- The quality of being able to withstand fatigue and hardship; (of a plant) the quality of being resistant to cold or other environmental conditions.
- Kale is known for its winter-hardiness.
- […] with usefull and generous labours preserving the bodies health, and hardinesse; to render lightsome, cleare, and not lumpish obedience to the minde,1642, John Milton, An apology against a pamphlet call’d A modest confutation of the animadversions upon the remonstrant against Smectymnuus, London: John Rothwell, page 13
- The quality of being bold in the face of risk or authority.
- Plentie, and Peace breeds Cowards: Hardneſſe euer / Of Hardineſſe is Mother.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
- […] they who were not yet grown to the hardineſs of Avowing the contempt of the King […] would ſooner have been checked, and recovered their Loyalty and Obedience.1702, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, book V, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], volume I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian]...
- Hardship; fatigue.
- Yet ſure they are very valiant, and hardy, for the moſt part great Indurers of Cold, Labour, Hunger, and all Hardineſs […]1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as “A View of the State of Ireland”, in...
hardiness meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
hardiness in Tamil
- கை, அஞ்சாமை
hardiness in Malayalam
- toughness, robustness, strength
- ബലം, ദൃഢഗാത്രത, ഊക്കു്, കടുപ്പം, ഉറപ്പ്, വീര്യം
Examples of hardiness in a sentence
- But the Houynhnhnms train up their Youth to Strength, Speed, and Hardineſs, by exerciſing them in running Races up and down ſteep Hills, and over hard and ſtony Grounds […]1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Relates Several Particulars of the Yahoos. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of...
- Cultivated wheat has lost its hardiness and its self-reliance, but its heads are filled with large kernels which feed the nation.1915, Nellie McClung, chapter 4, in In Times Like These, Toronto: McLeod & Allen:
Synonyms of hardiness
Forms of hardiness
| plural | hardinesses |
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Origin of hardiness
From Middle English hardynesse; equivalent to hardy + -ness.
Questions about hardiness
- What does hardiness mean?
- Hardiness means the quality of being able to withstand fatigue and hardship; (of a plant) the quality of being resistant to cold or other environmental conditions.
- What is hardiness in Tamil?
- Hardiness in Tamil is கை, அஞ்சாமை. See Hardiness meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use hardiness in a sentence?
- But the Houynhnhnms train up their Youth to Strength, Speed, and Hardineſs, by exerciſing them in running Races up and down ſteep Hills, and over hard and ſtony Grounds […]
- What part of speech is hardiness?
- Hardiness is a noun.
- What is the plural of hardiness?
- The plural of hardiness is hardinesses.
Words near hardiness in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hardiness (page history and authors); hardiness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hardiness (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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