English
Etymology
From French héroïsme, equivalent to hero + -ism.
Pronunciation
Noun
heroism (countable and uncountable, plural heroisms)
- The qualities characteristic of a hero, such as courage, bravery, fortitude, selflessness, etc.; the display of such qualities.
- Synonym: heroship
2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 1948, page 43:At the time, with the D-Day invasion of Europe going on, their heroism was hardly noticed. Plenty of other heroes were dying elsewhere. Plenty of bigger bits of history were being made.
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the qualities characteristic of a hero, the display of them
- Albanian: heroizëm (sq) m
- Arabic: بَسَالَة f (basāla), بُطُولَة f (buṭūla)
- Armenian: հերոսություն (hy) (herosutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: qəhrəmanlıq
- Belarusian: гераі́зм m (hjeraízm), гэраі́зм m (heraízm), геро́йства n (hjerójstva), гэро́йства n (herójstva)
- Bulgarian: геро́йство (bg) n (gerójstvo), герои́зъм (bg) m (geroízǎm)
- Burmese: သူရဲကောင်းဝါဒ (surai:kaung:wada.)
- Catalan: heroisme m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 英雄主義 / 英雄主义 (zh) (yīngxióngzhǔyì), 豪氣 / 豪气 (zh) (háoqì)
- Czech: hrdinství (cs) n, heroismus m
- Danish: heltemod n
- Dutch: heldenmoed (nl) m
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: kangelaslikkus
- Finnish: sankaruus (fi)
- French: héroïsme (fr) m
- Galician: heroísmo m
- Georgian: გმირობა (gmiroba)
- German: Heldenmut (de) m, Heroismus (de) m, Heldentum (de) n
- Greek: ηρωισμός (el) m (iroïsmós)
- Hebrew: גְבוּרָה (he) f (gvurá)
- Hindi: शौर्य (hi) m (śaurya), वीरता (hi) f (vīrtā)
- Hungarian: hősiesség (hu)
- Indonesian: kepahlawanan (id)
- Irish: laochas
- Italian: eroismo (it) m
- Japanese: 勇壮 (ja) (ゆうそう, yūsō), 英雄主義 (ja) (えいゆうしゅぎ, eiyūshugi), ヒロイズム (ja) (hiroizumu)
- Kazakh: қаһармандық (qaharmandyq), ерлік (erlık), батырлық (batyrlyq)
- Khmer: វីរភាព (viirĕəʼphiəp), វីរសម្បត្តិ (viirĕəʼ sɑmbat)
- Korean: 영웅심(英雄心) (yeong'ungsim), 영웅주의(英雄主義) (yeong'ungjuui)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: قارەمانی (qaremanî)
- Northern Kurdish: qehremanî (ku)
- Kyrgyz: баатырдык (ky) (baatırdık), каармандык (ky) (kaarmandık), эрдик (ky) (erdik)
- Lao: ນະຣຶການ (na rư kān), ວີລະກຳ (wī la kam), ວີຣະກຳ (wī ra kam)
- Latvian: heroisms m, varonība f
- Lithuanian: heroizmas m, didvyriškumas m
- Macedonian: ју́наштво n (júnaštvo), хе́ројство n (hérojstvo), херои́зам m (heroízam)
- Malay: kepahlawanan
- Maori: hautoa
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: heroisme m, heltemot n
- Ottoman Turkish: قهرمانلق (kahramanlık)
- Pashto: قهرماني (ps) f (qahramāni)
- Persian: قهرمانی (fa) (qahramâni), بسالت (fa) (basâlat)
- Polish: bohaterstwo (pl) n, heroizm (pl) m, bohaterskość (pl) f (rare)
- Portuguese: heroísmo (pt) m
- Romanian: eroism (ro) n
- Russian: герои́зм (ru) m (geroízm), геро́йство (ru) n (gerójstvo)
- Sanskrit: शवस् (sa) n (śavas), शौर्य (sa) n (śaurya)
- Scottish Gaelic: tapachd f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: хероѝзам m, херо́јство n, јуна́штво n
- Roman: heroìzam (sh) m, herójstvo (sh) n, junáštvo (sh) n
- Slovak: hrdinstvo n, heroizmus m
- Slovene: junaštvo n, herojstvo n
- Spanish: heroísmo (es) m
- Swahili: ushujaa
- Swedish: hjältemod (sv) n, heroism (sv) c
- Tajik: қаҳрамонӣ (tg) (qahramoni)
- Tamil: வீரம் (ta) (vīram)
- Tatar: батырлык (tt) (batırlıq)
- Thai: วีรกรรม (th) (wii-rá-gam)
- Turkish: kahramanlık (tr)
- Turkmen: gahrymanlyk, gahrymançylyk
- Ukrainian: герої́зм (uk) m (herojízm), геро́йство n (herójstvo)
- Urdu: بَہادُری f (bahādurī), بَسالَت f (basālat)
- Uyghur: قەھرىمانلىق (qehrimanliq)
- Uzbek: qahramonlik (uz)
- Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa anh hùng, tinh thần anh hùng
- Volapük: heroed (vo)
- Yiddish: גבֿורה f (gvure)
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