pusillanimity

Other forms: pusillanimities

Definitions of pusillanimity
  1. noun
    contemptible fearfulness
    synonyms: pusillanimousness
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    types:
    poltroonery
    abject pusillanimity
    type of:
    fearfulness
    the trait of being afraid
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