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Faintheartedness

Definitions: Faintheartedness

Faintheartedness

Noun

1. The trait of lacking boldness and courage.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Antonym: stoutheartedness (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Faintheartedness

Language Translations for "faintheartedness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Mutlosigkeit (chill, despondency, discouragement, dispiritedness). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מורך לב (cowardice, faintness, timidity). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

félénkség (bashfulness, coyness, diffidence, pusillanimity, shamefacedness, shyness, timidity, timidness, timorousness), gyávaság (cowardice, poltroonery, rabbit fever, recreancy, timidity, timidness, timorousness, white feather), bátortalanság (diffidence, dispiritedness, timidity, timidness, timorousness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aintheartednessfay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

малодушие (chicken heart, cowardice, pusillanimity, pussillanimity, recreancy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Faintheartedness

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

ignavia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Faintheartedness

Derivations

Words beginning with "faintheartedness": faintheartednesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Faintheartedness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-e-f-h-i-n-n-r-s-s-t-t"

-4 letters: fainthearted.

-5 letters: disheartens, entertained, fatshederas, featheriest, fenestrated, intenerated, intenerates, tearstained, threadiness.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-e-e-f-h-i-n-n-r-s-s-t-t"
 

+2 letters: faintheartednesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Faintheartedness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 61 69 6E 74 68 65 61 72 74 65 64 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .-    ..    -.    -    ....    .    .-    .-.    -    .    -..    -.    .    ...    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110100 01101000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01100101 01100100 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#116 &#104 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#116 &#101 &#100 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 0069 006E 0074 0068 0065 0061 0072 0074 0065 0064 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40677580867471678486717080718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Translations: Ancient
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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