Aa: Audacity

noun

1. Fearless daring; intrepidity.

2. Bold or insolent heedlessness of restraints, as of those imposed by prudence, propriety, or convention.

3. An act or instance of intrepidity or insolent heedlessness:

She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her.

the Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli