Hardiness /(-dĭ*nĕs)/

Har·di·ness

Hardiness

n.
  1. Capability of endurance.
  2. Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance.
    Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness is mother.
    They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king.
  3. Hardship; fatigue. [Obs.]