Faint-heartedness
Origin
en + -faint-hearted + ness
Full definition of faint-heartedness
Noun
faint-heartedness
(uncountable)- 2014, Ute Frevert, ‎Pascal Eitler, ‎Stephanie Olsen, Uffa Jensen, Margrit Pernau, Daniel Brűckenhaus, Magdalena Beljan, Benno Gammerl, & Anja Laukőtter, Learning How to Feel: Children's Literature and the History of Emotional Socialization, 1870-1970, Unlike the Cowardly Lion, his American counterpart from thirty years earlier, he not only suffers from faint-heartedness, but from behaving accordingly.