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語源

From 中期英語 audacite, from Medieval Latin audācitās (whence -acity), from Latin audāx (“bold”), from audeō (“to be bold, to dare”).

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: ô-dăʹsĭti, IPA: /ɔːˈdæ.sɪ.ti/
• (米国発音) enPR: ô-dăʹsĭti, IPA: /ɔˈdæ.sɪ.ti/, [ɔˈdæ.sɪ.ɾi]
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ɑˈdæ.sɪ.ti/, [ɑˈdæ.sɪ.ɾi]
• ハイフネーション: au‧da‧ci‧ty
• 韻: -æsɪti

名詞

audacity (countable and uncountable, plural audacities)

1. Insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional.

   Synonyms: audaciousness, chutzpah, outdaciousness, temerity, gall

   The brash private had the audacity to criticize the general.

   Somebody never pays his loans, yet he has the audacity to ask the bank for money.

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     “Oh?” she said. “So you have decided to revise my guest list for me? You have the nerve, the – the –” I saw she needed helping out. “Audacity,” I said, throwing her the line. “The audacity to dictate to me who I shall have in my house.” It should have been “whom”, but I let it go. “You have the –” “Crust.” “– the immortal rind,” she amended, and I had to admit it was stronger, “to tell me whom” – she got it right that time – “I may entertain at Brinkley Court and who” – wrong again – “I may not.”

2. Fearlessness, intrepidity or daring, especially with confident disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions.

派生語

関連する語

• audacious

Further reading

• “audacity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “audacity”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “audacity”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.