impavidness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]impavidness (uncountable)
- (rare) The state of being impavid; fearlessness, bravery.
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1030:
- As she read the portrait of the small staring face in the sailor hat, fervent in its withdrawn impavidness, gazed out upon her from the slowly gliding limousine.