n.
The state or quality of being pusillanimous; cowardice.
pusillanimity
Dictionary:
pu·sil·la·nim·i·ty (pyū'sə-lə-nĭm'ĭ-tē)  |
| Thesaurus: pusillanimity |
noun
- Ignoble lack of courage: chickenheartedness, cowardice, cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, faint-heartedness, funk, unmanliness. Slang gutlessness, yellowness, yellow streak. See fear/courage.
| WordNet: pusillanimity |
Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
contemptible fearfulness
Synonym: pusillanimousness
Learn More
 | poltroonery |
| poltroonery |
| arghness |
Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:
Copyrights:
 |
 | Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Read more |
 |
| Thesaurus. Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Read more |
 |
| WordNet. WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Read more |
ADVERTISEMENT
Mentioned in
- cowardice
- Moroccan Question
- Address of the Continental Congress to Inhabitants of Canada (American history)
- Letters of Abigail and John Adams (American history)
- The Poet (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- Magnanimity
- Stoic Passions
- David Lindsay (d. 1641)
- Eachuinn Odhar Maclean
- Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg
