Courage vs. Tonic — 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.

An agent, such as a medication, that is supposed to restore or improve health or well-being.

The ability to do something that frightens one; bravery

A liquid preparation for the scalp or hair.

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

An invigorating, refreshing, or restorative agent or influence

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

See tonic water.

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

(Boston) See soft drink.

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.

(Music) The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote.

(obsolete) To encourage.

(Linguistics) A tonic accent.

The heart; spirit; temper; disposition.

Restorative or stimulating to health or well-being.

Heart; inclination; desire; will.

(Physiology) Of, relating to, or producing tone or tonicity in muscles or tissue

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

(Medicine) Characterized by continuous tension or contraction of muscles

To inspire with courage; to encourage.

(Music) Of or based on the keynote.

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

Stressed, as a syllable; accented.

Pertaining to tension, especially of muscles.

Restorative, curative or invigorating.

In a state of continuous unremitting action.

(music) Pertaining to or based upon the first note of a diatonic scale.

Pertaining to the accent or stress in a word or in speech.

Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically being or relating to a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, i.e. a vowel or diphthong.

A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate.

Tonic water.

Any of various carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages; soda pop.

(figuratively) Someone or something that revitalises or reinvigorates.

(music) The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote.

(music) The triad built on the tonic note.

(phonetics) A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.

To restore or invigorate.

Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation."

Of or pertaining to tension; increasing tension; hence, increasing strength; as, tonic power.

Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring healthy functions.

Characterized by continuous muscular contraction; as, tonic convulsions.

A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.

The key tone, or first tone of any scale.

A medicine that increases the strength, and gives vigor of action to the system.

Lime- or lemon-flavored carbonated water containing quinine

A sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring;

(music) the first note of a diatonic scale

A medicine that strengthens and invigorates

Of or relating to or producing normal tone or tonus in muscles or tissue;

Employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words;

Used of syllables;

Relating to or being the keynote of a major or minor scale;

Imparting vitality and energy;