pusillanimity
81pusillanimous — adjective formal frightened of taking even small risks pusillanimously adverb pusillanimity noun (U) …
82pusillanimous — adjective formal frightened of taking even small risks pusillanimously adverb pusillanimity noun (U) …
83weakness — noun 1) with old age came weakness Syn: frailty, feebleness, enfeeblement, fragility, delicacy; infirmity, sickness, sickliness, debility, incapacity, impotence, indisposition, decrepitude, vulnerability 2) he has worked on his weak …
84fortitude — fortitude, grit, backbone, pluck, guts, sand denote a quality of character combining courage and staying power. Fortitude stresses strength of mind and firmness of purpose; it implies endurance, often prolonged endurance, of physical or mental… …
85baseness — n 1. vileness, meanness, lowness, viciousness, badness; sordidness, ignobility, foulness, sinisterness, darkness, black heartedness; balefulness, dread fulness, direness, direfulness, grimness; malice, maleficence, invidiousness; wickedness,… …
86cowardice — n pusillanimity, timidity, timorousness, faint heartedness, weak heartedness, Inf. chicken heartedness; poltroonery, dastardliness, recreancy, cra venness, cowardliness; faint heart, weak knees, white feather, Inf. chicken heart, Inf. funk, Sl.… …
87irresolution — n 1. infirmity, vacillation, indecision, indecisiveness, uncertainty, doubt, dubiety; hesitancy, hesitance, tergiversation, changeableness, irre soluteness, fickleness, wishy washiness; inconstancy, instability, variability, unsteadiness,… …
88timidity — n 1. timorousness, pusillanimity, fear fulness, fearsomeness, lily liveredness, faintheartedness, weak heartedness, Inf. chicken heartedness, Inf. chicken liveredness, Sl. yellow belliedness; cowardice, cowardliness, dastardliness, poltroonery,… …
89cowardice — [n] timidity cold feet*, faintheartedness, fear, fearfulness, funk, gutlessness, mousiness, pusillanimity, wimpiness; concept 27 …
90pusillanimous — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ lacking courage; timid. DERIVATIVES pusillanimity noun. ORIGIN from Latin pusillus very small + animus mind …
