SuaviloquyToday’s word

foolhardiness

Foolhardiness, n.

Courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness. Dryden.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for foolhardiness; he lists it under temerity.

Where he writes about it:

Venturesomeness dallies on the edge of danger and experiments with it; foolhardiness rushes in for want of sense, heedlessness for want of attention, rashness for want of reflection, recklessness from disregard of consequences. — from temerity