Courage vs. Stupidity — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Courage and Stupidity
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Courage
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.
Stupidity
Stupidity is a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, or wit. It may be innate, assumed or reactive.
Courage
The ability to do something that frightens one; bravery
She called on all her courage to face the ordeal
Stupidity
The quality or condition of being stupid.
Courage
The state or quality of mind or spirit that enables one to face danger, fear, or vicissitudes with self-possession, confidence, and resolution; bravery.
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Stupidity
A stupid act, remark, or idea.
Courage
The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.
Stupidity
(uncountable) The property of being stupid.
I suppose you can put it down to gross stupidity, but that's not much of an excuse.
Courage
The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.
Stupidity
(countable) An act that is stupid.
Jimmy's stupidity cost him his car.
Courage
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.
Stupidity
The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.
Courage
(obsolete) To encourage.
Stupidity
Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction.
A stupidityPast admiration strikes me, joined with fear.
Courage
The heart; spirit; temper; disposition.
So priketh hem nature in here corages.
My lord, cheer up your spirits; our foes are nigh,and this soft courage makes your followers faint.
Stupidity
A poor ability to understand or to profit from experience
Courage
Heart; inclination; desire; will.
I'd such a courage to do him good.
Stupidity
A stupid mistake
Courage
That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution.
The king-becoming graces . . . Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,I have no relish of them.
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it.
Courage
To inspire with courage; to encourage.
Paul writeth unto Timothy . . . to courage him.
Courage
A quality of spirit that enables you to face danger of pain without showing fear
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