Courage vs. Guts — What's the Difference?

Courage (also called bravery or valour) is the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Valour is courage or bravery, especially in battle.

The digestive tract or a portion thereof, especially the intestine or stomach.

The ability to do something that frightens one; bravery

The embryonic digestive tube, consisting of the foregut, the midgut, and the hindgut.

The state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger, fear, or vicissitudes with self-possession, confidence, and resolution; bravery.

Guts The bowels or entrails; viscera.

The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.

(Informal) A large belly or abdomen, especially one resulting from overeating or a sedentary lifestyle

The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.

Innermost emotional or visceral response

The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal. Moral fortitude.

Guts The inner or essential parts

(obsolete) To encourage.

Guts Informal Courage; fortitude

The heart; spirit; temper; disposition.

Thin, tough cord made from the intestines of animals, usually sheep, used as strings for musical instruments or as surgical sutures.

Heart; inclination; desire; will.

Fibrous material taken from the silk gland of a silkworm before it spins a cocoon, used for fishing tackle.

That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution.

A narrow passage or channel.

To inspire with courage; to encourage.

The central, lengthwise portion of a playing area.

A quality of spirit that enables you to face danger of pain without showing fear

The players occupying this space

(Slang) A gut course.

To remove the intestines or entrails of; eviscerate.

To extract essential or major parts of

To destroy the interior of

To reduce or destroy the effectiveness of

Arousing or involving basic emotions; visceral

Plural of gut

The entrails or contents of the abdomen.

Courage; determination.

(informal) Content, substance.

(informal) The essential, core parts.

(informal) One's innermost feelings.

The ring in the gambling game two-up in which the spinner operates; the centre.

The center of the field.

To eat greedily.

(informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out).

Fortitude and determination;