
This list of synonyms for the word audacity is provided by Power Thesaurus. Synonyms are useful to know if you are trying to avoid repeating yourself as well as if you would like to expand your vocabulary. These are called synonyms, which are words and phrases that have the same definition as another word or phrase. There are many different words that one can use in place of the word audacity. What are synonyms and antonyms for audacity? This word comes from the Medieval Latin audacitas/Medieval Latin audācitāt, the Latin audācitās, from Latin audāc/audāx and the Latin audacis, which is the genitive of the Latin audax meaning bold, daring or rash.

Czech: smělost (fem.), troufalost (fem.).Turkish: cesaret, cesurluk, cürret, küstahlık, korkusuzluk.French: audace (fem.), toupet (masc.), culot (masc.) (familiar).This list of translations of audacity is provided by Word Sense but you could also find translations of audacity in something like a Spanish Dictionary, French electronic resource or German Dictionary. Often, cognates, which are words and phrases that look, sound and mean similar things across languages, are formed when two words have a shared ancestral language such as Latin or Greek. This is likely because they share a common origin. You may notice that some of these words look quite similar to one another. Many other languages also contain words that mean audacity. The plural of audacity is audacities in which the suffix ity is replaced with ies, the word audacity is four syllables – au-da-ci-ty, and the pronunciation of audacity is ɔˈdæsɪti.

Audacity can refer to the insolent heedlessness of restraints or personal safety, or an arrogant disregard for restrictions, prudence, propriety, or conventional thought. This word often has a negative connotation. According to sources like Collins English Dictionary and American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the word audacity is a noun that refers to courage, shamelessness, or a brazen boldness.
