pusillanimousness
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pusillanimousness — pu·sil·lan·i·mous·ness … English syllables
pusillanimousness — noun contemptible fearfulness • Syn: ↑pusillanimity • Derivationally related forms: ↑pusillanimous, ↑pusillanimous (for: ↑pusillanimity) • Hypernyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
pusillanimity — noun The quality or state of being pusillanimous; the vice of being timid and cowardly, and thus not living up to ones full potential; pusillanimousness. 132. And although thou often fallest, and seest thy Pusillanimity, and endeavour to get… … Wiktionary
pusillanimity — noun contemptible fearfulness • Syn: ↑pusillanimousness • Derivationally related forms: ↑pusillanimous (for: ↑pusillanimousness), ↑pusillanimous • Hypernyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
pusillanimous — adjective /pjuːsɪlˈænɪmʊs,pjuːsəlˈænəmʊs/ Showing ignoble cowardice, or contemptible timidity The soldier deserted his troop in a pusillanimous manner. See Also: pusillanimously, pusillanimousness … Wiktionary
fearfulness — I noun affright, agitation, alarm, anxiousness, apprehension, consternation, distrust, faint heartedness, fear, fright, intimidation, misgiving, nervousness, pusillanimousness, shyness, stress, suspicion, superstition, terror, timidity,… … Law dictionary
baseness — Synonyms and related words: abjectness, abominability, abominableness, arrantness, atrociousness, awfulness, badness, beastliness, beggarliness, bestiality, brutality, chicanery, coarseness, commonness, commonplaceness, contemptibility,… … Moby Thesaurus
pusillanimity — n. Cowardice, cowardliness, timidity, poltroonery, recreancy, dastardliness, meanspiritedness, pusillanimousness, effeminacy, faintheartedness, fear … New dictionary of synonyms
fearfulness — noun 1. an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) • Syn: ↑fear, ↑fright • Ant: ↑fearlessness (for: ↑fear) • Derivationally related forms … Useful english dictionary
poltroonery — noun abject pusillanimity • Hypernyms: ↑pusillanimity, ↑pusillanimousness … Useful english dictionary
