pusillanimity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pu=sil=la=nim=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

pusillanimity, n. [L. pusillanimitas: cf. F. pusillanimité.].

 The quality of being pusillanimous; weakness of spirit; cowardliness.  [1913 Webster]
"The badge of pusillanimity and cowardice."  [1913 Webster]
"It is obvious to distinguished between an act of . . . pusillanimity and an act of great modesty or humility."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Cowardliness; cowardice; fear; timidity.

ROGET THESAURUS

pusillanimity

Cowardice

N cowardice, pusillanimity, cowardliness, timidity, effeminacy, poltroonery, baseness, dastardness, dastardy, abject fear, funk, Dutch courage, fear, white feather, faint heart, cold feet, yellow streak, coward, poltroon, dastard, sneak, recreant, shy cock, dunghill cock, coistril, milksop, white liver, lily liver, nidget, one that cannot say 'boo' to a goose, slink, Bob Acres, Jerry Sneak, alarmist, terrorist, pessimist, runagate, coward, cowardly, fearful, shy, timid, timorous, skittish, poor- spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate, weak-minded, infirm of purpose, weak-hearted, fainthearted, chickenhearted, henhearted, lilyhearted, pigeon-hearted, white- livered, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksop, smock-faced, unable to say 'boo' to a goose, dastard, dastardly, base, craven, sneaking, dunghill, recreant, unwarlike, unsoldier-like, in face a lion but in heart a deer, unmanned, frightened, Int, sauve qui peut!, every man for himself!, devil take the hindmost!, ante tubam trepidat, one's courage oozing out, degeneres animos timor arguit.