cowardliness

Questions about cowardliness

What does cowardliness mean?

cowardliness means "the trait of lacking courage".

How many syllables are in cowardliness?

cowardliness has 4 syllables: co-ward-li-ness. The stress falls on "ward".

What is another word for cowardliness?

Close synonyms include cowardice. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cowardliness a common word?

cowardliness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.