Synonyms for cowardice
ˈkaʊ ər dɪscow·ardice

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1. cowardicenoun

   Synonyms:
   cowardliness

2. cowardicenoun

   Lack of courage.

   Synonyms:
   cowardliness

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.7 / 3 votes

1. cowardice

   Synonyms:
   cowardliness, effeminacy, fear, pusillanimity, timidity

   Antonyms:
   bravery, courage, gallantry, heroism, intrepidity, prowess, valor

Princeton's WordNetRate this synonym:3.6 / 5 votes

1. cowardice, cowardlinessnoun

   the trait of lacking courage

   Synonyms:
   cowardliness

   Antonyms:
   braveness, courage, courageousness, bravery

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1. • Spirit

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. cowardicenoun

   Synonyms:
   pusillanimity, poltroonery, timidity, fear, cowardliness, the white feather

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1. cowardicenoun

   Synonyms:
   pusillanimity, poltroonery, dastardy, recreancy, timidity, cowardliness

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1. List of paraphrases for "cowardice":

   cowardly, coward

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1. Thomas Paine:

   Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

2. Ernest Hemingway:

   Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

3. Irving Wallace:

   To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

4. William Punshon:

   Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

5. Mark Twain:

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