pusillanimousness

Questions about pusillanimousness

What does pusillanimousness mean?

pusillanimousness means "contemptible fearfulness".

How many syllables are in pusillanimousness?

pusillanimousness has 6 syllables and divides as pu-sil-la-ni-mou-sness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for pusillanimousness?

Close synonyms include pusillanimity. 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 pusillanimousness a common word?

pusillanimousness 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.