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Temerity n. excessive confidence or boldness; audacity.
Implies exposing oneself needlessly to danger while failing to estimate one's chances of success.
ORIGIN late Middle English : from Latin temeritas, from temere ‘rashly.’
Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.