Is this even a word?

[George K]

I just saw an ad that said, "Bravery has a face..."

"Bravery?"

Really?

What's wrong with "courage?"

[Doctor Phibes]

You come from the country that gave us 'burglarize', 'winningest', 'impacted', 'lawmakers', and two-time (as an alternative to double).

I think it's a little late to start complaining about perfectly good words.

From the sauce of all wisdom, a/k/a the internet:

Bravery is the ability to confront something painful or difficult or dangerous without any fear. It's a quality, not a state of mind; it doesn't need a cause to awaken it. ... Courage, on the other hand, is the ability to confront something painful or difficult or dangerous despite any fear.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Is this even a word?:

From the sauce of all wisdom, a/k/a the internet:

Says the guy who puts forward-slashes between each letter of an initialism...

[Copper]

This is a word.

[jon-nyc]

Of course it’s a word.

I’m reminded of my son when he was little. For something he wasn’t afraid of, he would say “Don’t worry, I’m brave of that.”

Sort of modeled off of “I’m afraid of that”.

[George K]

OK, OK, I'll stand down. I'd just never heard it in that context.

But, I'm a geezer and I was on my 2nd (cheap) Scotch of the evening my memory fails.

Mea culpa.

[Loki]

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