cowardice

[cow·ard·ice]

Cowardice is a lack of bravery. If you run away screaming when your Uncle Marvin shows up to the Halloween party in a clown mask, you will betray your cowardice particularly if you're not a child.

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Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.

Noun
the trait of lacking courage


n.
Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.


Cowardice

Cow"ard*ice (-?s), n. [F. couardise, fr. couard. See Coward.] Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.
The cowardice of doing wrong.
Moderation was despised as cowardice.

Cowardie

Cow"ard*ie (kou"?rd-?), n. [OF. couardie.] Cowardice. [Obs.]

Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.

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Usage Examples

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

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Other Usage Examples

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

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