Associations to the word «Pusillanimity»

Wiktionary

PUSILLANIMITY, noun. The quality or state of being pusillanimous; the vice of being timid and cowardly, and thus not living up to one's full potential; pusillanimousness.

Dictionary definition

PUSILLANIMITY, noun. Contemptible fearfulness.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope