boldness or daring, esp. with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions.

effrontery or insolence; shameless boldness

His questioner's audacity shocked the lecturer.

Usually, audacities. audacious acts or statements.

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care , carefulness , caution , reserve , timidity , gentility , humility , meekness , modesty , yielding

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adventurousness , audaciousness , boldness , bravery , courage , dauntlessness , enterprise , fearlessness , guts , intrepidity , nerve , rashness , valor , venturesomeness , assurance , brass , cheek * , chutzpah * , cockiness , crust , defiance , disrespectfulness , effrontery , forwardness , gall , guts * , gutsiness , hardiness , impertinence , impudence , insolence , moxie , rudeness , shamelessness , spunk , stuff * , temerity , adventuresomeness , daredevilry , daredeviltry , daringness , venturousness , assumption , brashness , brazenness , cheek , cheekiness , chutzpah , discourtesy , disrespect , face , familiarity , impudency , incivility , nerviness , overconfidence , pertness , presumptuousness , pushiness , sassiness , sauciness , arrogance , grit , hubris , impetuosity , imprudence , mettle , spirit