The ability to confront pain, fear, humiliation, or anything else a person would naturally stay away from. Can be divided into Mental and Physical courage.
Mental Courage encompasses threats, attacks, and discomfort of the mind.
Physical Courage is pain, hardship, torture, and death
Ex1: Shughart and Gordon were truly courageous men. They died to defend a fellow solider who was inured and unable to move.
Ex2: Hannah was really brave today, she stood up to the other girls who were making fun of her.
The collective noun for a pack of Apple dongles is called a "courage". When they are bagged up to keep them organized, its known as a "bag of courage". When the Apple dongles are left alone in a drawer, unused and replaced by some wireless magic, they are sometimes referred to as a "fear".