faintheartedness

The word “faintheartedness” has 4 syllables: faint-heart-ed-ness

It's pronounced as /ˌfeɪntˈhɑrtɪdnəs/


What is synonym and antonym for faintheartedness?

In the thesaurus, “faintheartedness” has 37 synonyms and 45 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for faintheartedness along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for faintheartedness

  • alarm
  • alarum
  • anxiety
  • apprehension
  • bashfulness
  • chicken
  • chickenheartedness
  • concern
  • constraint
  • cowardice
  • cowardliness
  • cravenness
  • discomposure
  • dismay
  • embarrassment
  • fear
  • fearfulness
  • gutlessness
  • hesitation
  • indecision
  • indecisiveness
  • inhibition
  • irresoluteness
  • irresolution
  • panic
  • pusillanimity
  • restraint
  • shyness
  • skittishness
  • spinelessness
  • timidity
  • timidness
  • timorousness
  • unmanliness
  • upset
  • wimpiness
  • worry

Antonyms for faintheartedness

  • assurance
  • audaciousness
  • audacity
  • backbone
  • boldness
  • bravery
  • brazenness
  • cheek
  • cojones
  • composure
  • confidence
  • coolness
  • courage
  • courageousness
  • daring
  • dauntlessness
  • decisiveness
  • determination
  • doughtiness
  • effrontery
  • fearlessness
  • fiber
  • firmness
  • fortitude
  • gall
  • gameness
  • grit
  • gumption
  • guts
  • gutsiness
  • insouciance
  • intrepidity
  • intrepidness
  • mettle
  • nerve
  • nonchalance
  • resoluteness
  • resolution
  • self-assertiveness
  • self-assurance
  • self-confidence
  • spunk
  • temerity
  • unconcern
  • valor

Example Sentences

  • Her faintheartedness often prevented her from taking risks or trying new experiences.
  • The coach addressed the team's faintheartedness and encouraged them to play with more confidence.
  • Overcoming faintheartedness requires facing fears and pushing beyond comfort zones.
  • The novel explores themes of courage and faintheartedness in the face of adversity.
  • Despite his initial faintheartedness, he eventually summoned the courage to speak up for what he believed in.

On this page you'll find 82 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to faintheartedness, such as: alarm, alarum, anxiety, apprehension, assurance, audaciousness, audacity.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

waiting

  • abeyancy
  • accessible
  • adjusted
  • alert
  • all set
  • all systems go
  • ambuscade
  • ambushment
  • anticipating
  • anticipative
  • anxious
  • apprehensive
  • apt
  • arranged
  • assumption
  • assurance
  • at beck and call
  • at fingertips
  • at hand
  • at the ready
  • aversion
  • avoidance
  • awaiting
  • belief
  • biding
  • breathless
  • calculation
  • champing at bit
  • close to hand
  • completed
  • confidence
  • conjecture
  • consideration
  • convenient
  • covered
  • debate
  • delay
  • deliberation
  • discontinuation
  • disinclination
  • dormancy
  • doubt
  • eager
  • equal to
  • equipped
  • equivocation
  • expectant
  • expectation
  • expecting
  • faintheartedness
  • faltering
  • fence-sitting
  • fit
  • fixed for
  • halting
  • handy
  • hanging around
  • hawing
  • hesitance
  • hesitancy
  • hesitation
  • holding on
  • hope
  • hopeful
  • hoping
  • in line
  • in order
  • in place
  • in position
  • in readiness
  • in suspense
  • in the saddle
  • inactivity
  • incertitude
  • indecision
  • indecisiveness
  • indetermination
  • indisposition
  • intermission
  • irresolution
  • latency
  • likelihood
  • lingering
  • looking for
  • looking forward
  • misgiving
  • near
  • on call
  • on edge
  • on hand
  • on tap
  • on tenterhooks
  • on the brink
  • open to
  • organized
  • outlook
  • pause
  • pausing
  • postponement
  • prediction
  • prepared
  • presentation
  • presentiment
  • presumption
  • primed
  • probability
  • procrastination
  • prospect
  • qualified
  • quiescence
  • raring
  • ready
  • recess
  • reliance
  • reluctance
  • remaining
  • remission
  • resting
  • ripe
  • second thought
  • set
  • shilly-shally
  • shilly-shallying
  • shyness
  • sitting tight
  • standing by
  • staying
  • sticking around
  • stopping
  • supposition
  • surmise
  • suspense
  • suspension
  • tarrying
  • temporarily deferred
  • timidity
  • timidness
  • trap
  • trick
  • trust
  • uncertainness
  • uncertainty
  • unwillingness
  • vacillation
  • view
  • vigilant
  • wabbling
  • waiting on
  • watchful
  • wavering
  • wired
  • with bated breath
  • wobbling

wabbling

panic

  • Black Monday
  • affright
  • agitation
  • alarm
  • alarum
  • amaze
  • anxiety
  • appal
  • appall
  • apprehension
  • astound
  • awe
  • be terror-stricken
  • become hysterical
  • bowl over
  • bust
  • chill
  • clutch
  • cold feet
  • come apart
  • concern
  • confusion
  • consternation
  • cowardice
  • crash
  • creeps
  • crush
  • daunt
  • demoralize
  • depression
  • discomfort
  • discompose
  • discomposure
  • disconcert
  • dismay
  • dispirit
  • disquiet
  • distract
  • distress
  • disturb
  • dread
  • emasculate
  • faintheartedness
  • fear
  • fearfulness
  • floor
  • freeze up
  • frenzy
  • fright
  • frighten
  • funk
  • give one the creeps
  • go to pieces
  • have a fit
  • horrify
  • horror
  • hysteria
  • jam
  • jitters
  • jolt
  • lose it
  • lose nerve
  • nervousness
  • overreact
  • pang
  • perturb
  • perturbation
  • phobia
  • push panic button
  • qualm
  • rainy day
  • run scared
  • rush
  • scare
  • scarify
  • shake
  • shake in boots
  • shake up
  • shock
  • slump
  • spook
  • stampede
  • startle
  • terrify
  • terror
  • terrorize
  • timidity
  • timorousness
  • trepidation
  • twinge
  • undo
  • unman
  • unnerve
  • unsettle
  • unstring
  • upset
  • willies
  • worry

vacillation

  • aversion
  • avoidance
  • consideration
  • debate
  • delay
  • deliberation
  • disinclination
  • doubt
  • equivocation
  • faintheartedness
  • faltering
  • fence-sitting
  • hawing
  • hesitance
  • hesitancy
  • hesitation
  • incertitude
  • inconstancy
  • indecision
  • indecisiveness
  • indetermination
  • indisposition
  • irresoluteness
  • irresolution
  • misgiving
  • pause
  • procrastination
  • reluctance
  • second thought
  • shilly-shally
  • shilly-shallying
  • shyness
  • sway
  • swaying
  • swing
  • tentativeness
  • timidity
  • timidness
  • uncertainness
  • uncertainty
  • unwillingness
  • vibration
  • wabbling
  • waiting
  • wave
  • wavering
  • wobbling

faltering

  • aberrant
  • afraid
  • agnostic
  • agnosticism
  • ailing
  • aimless
  • all aquiver
  • ambiguity
  • ambivalent
  • anemic
  • anile
  • anxiety
  • anxious
  • apprehension
  • apprehensive
  • aquake
  • aquiver
  • ashake
  • aside
  • averse
  • averseness
  • aversion
  • avoidance
  • awkward
  • backing down
  • backward
  • baffled
  • balancing
  • bated
  • betwixt and between
  • bland
  • bleached
  • blurred
  • breathless
  • bumbling
  • capricious
  • careening
  • casual
  • caution
  • cautious
  • censor
  • changeable
  • changing
  • claudicant
  • clumsy
  • compunction
  • conflicted
  • confused
  • confusion
  • conscience
  • consideration
  • considering
  • dallying
  • dawdling
  • deadened
  • debate
  • debating
  • debilitated
  • decrepit
  • deep
  • delay
  • delaying
  • deliberating
  • deliberation
  • delicate
  • demur
  • demurral
  • designless
  • desultory
  • difficulty
  • diffidence
  • diffident
  • dilemma
  • dim
  • disbelief
  • discomfited
  • discomposed
  • disconcerted
  • disconnected
  • discontinuous
  • discordant
  • discredit
  • disinclination
  • disinclined
  • disjointed
  • disordered
  • disquiet
  • disquieted
  • distant
  • distracted
  • distrust
  • distrustful
  • disturbed
  • dithering
  • dizzy
  • dotard
  • doubt
  • doubtful
  • doubting
  • drooping
  • dubiety
  • dubious
  • dubiousness
  • dull
  • dumb
  • dusty
  • eccentric
  • edgy
  • enervated
  • enfeebled
  • epicene
  • equivocal
  • equivocating
  • equivocation
  • erratic
  • exhausted
  • faded
  • failing
  • faint
  • faintheartedness
  • faithless
  • faithlessness
  • far-off
  • fatigued
  • faulty
  • fear
  • fearful
  • feeble
  • fence-sitting
  • fickle
  • fidgety
  • fitful
  • flabby
  • flimsy
  • floundering
  • fluctuant
  • fluctuating
  • fluctuation
  • flustered
  • fragile
  • fragmentary
  • frail
  • fumbling
  • gauche
  • gentle
  • half-hearted
  • halfhearted
  • halting
  • hanging back
  • haphazard
  • hawing
  • hazy
  • hedging
  • hemming
  • hemming and hawing
  • hesitance
  • hesitancy
  • hesitant
  • hesitating
  • hesitation
  • hit-or-miss
  • hoarse
  • hot-and-cold
  • hushed
  • ill
  • ill-defined
  • imperceptible
  • imperfect
  • in a quandary
  • in clouds
  • in dilemma
  • inadequate
  • inarticulate
  • inaudible
  • incertitude
  • incoherent
  • incohesive
  • incomplete
  • incomprehensible
  • inconclusive
  • incongruous
  • inconsistent
  • inconstant
  • incredulity
  • indecision
  • indecisive
  • indecisiveness
  • indeterminate
  • indetermination
  • indiscriminate
  • indisposed
  • indisposition
  • indistinct
  • indistinguishable
  • ineffective
  • inefficient
  • inept
  • infirm
  • infrequent
  • insecure
  • insubstantial
  • insufficient
  • intermittent
  • irrational
  • irresolute
  • irresoluteness
  • irresolution
  • jellylike
  • jerky
  • jerry-built
  • jittery
  • jumbled
  • labored
  • lack of confidence
  • lacking confidence
  • laid low
  • lame
  • languid
  • lazy
  • lenient
  • lethargic
  • light
  • lightheaded
  • like doubting Thomas
  • limping
  • lingering
  • loath
  • loathe
  • lost
  • loth
  • low
  • low-pitched
  • lumbering
  • lurch
  • lurching
  • maladroit
  • maundering
  • mild
  • misgiving
  • mistrust
  • moderate
  • moot
  • muddled
  • muffled
  • mumbled
  • mumbling
  • murmuring
  • mute
  • muted
  • muttered
  • muttering
  • nervous
  • nonuniform
  • not following
  • not set
  • obscure
  • occasional
  • of two minds
  • on edge
  • on pins and needles
  • on tenterhooks
  • on the fence
  • on-the-fence
  • open to question
  • oscillating
  • oscillation
  • out of earshot
  • out of order
  • out of place
  • padded
  • pale
  • patchy
  • pause
  • pausing
  • pending
  • pendulous
  • perplexed
  • perplexity
  • piano
  • pondering
  • poor
  • precarious
  • problem
  • problematical
  • procrastinating
  • procrastination
  • puny
  • purposeless
  • pussyfooting
  • puzzled
  • puzzling
  • quaking
  • qualm
  • quandary
  • quavering
  • questioning
  • quiet
  • quivering
  • quivery
  • rambling
  • rattletrap
  • raving
  • reconsideration
  • recurrent
  • reeling
  • rejection
  • reluctance
  • reluctancy
  • reluctant
  • remote
  • repetition
  • restless
  • reticent
  • rickety
  • rocking
  • rocky
  • rootless
  • scruple
  • scrupling
  • second thought
  • self-conscious
  • senile
  • sensile
  • shadowy
  • shaking
  • shaky
  • shifting
  • shilly-shally
  • shilly-shallying
  • shuddering
  • shy
  • shyness
  • silent
  • skeptical
  • skepticism
  • slight
  • slow
  • smooth
  • soft
  • softened
  • soothing
  • spasmodic
  • speechless
  • splutter
  • sporadic
  • sputtering
  • squeamishness
  • staggering
  • stammering
  • stifled
  • stoppage
  • stumble
  • stumbling
  • stutter
  • stuttering
  • subdued
  • superego
  • suspense
  • suspicion
  • suspicious
  • swaying
  • teetering
  • tender
  • tense
  • tentative
  • tentativeness
  • tenuous
  • theoretical
  • thin
  • timid
  • timidity
  • timidness
  • to and fro
  • toddling
  • tongue-tied
  • tottering
  • tottery
  • trembling
  • tremorous
  • tremulous
  • troubled
  • tumbledown
  • twinge
  • unanswered
  • uncertain
  • uncertainness
  • uncertainty
  • unclear
  • uncomfortable
  • uncommunicative
  • unconcluded
  • unconnected
  • unconsidered
  • unconvinced
  • unconvincing
  • uncoordinated
  • undecided
  • undetermined
  • uneager
  • uneasiness
  • uneasy
  • unenthusiastic
  • uneven
  • uneventful
  • unfinished
  • unfirm
  • unhandy
  • unintelligible
  • unmethodical
  • unpersuasive
  • unpleasing
  • unpredictable
  • unpunctual
  • unrelaxed
  • unreliable
  • unresolved
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsettled
  • unsolved
  • unsound
  • unspoken
  • unstable
  • unsteady
  • unsubstantial
  • unsuitable
  • unsure
  • unsystematic
  • unuttered
  • unvocal
  • unvoiced
  • unwilling
  • unwillingness
  • up and down
  • up in the air
  • vacillant
  • vacillating
  • vacillation
  • vacillatory
  • vague
  • vibrating
  • voiceless
  • wabbling
  • wabbly
  • waffling
  • waiting
  • wan
  • wandering
  • wavering
  • weak
  • weak-kneed
  • weaving
  • weighing
  • whispered
  • wild
  • wimpy
  • wishy-washy
  • without belief
  • wobble
  • wobbling
  • wobbly
  • wooden
  • woozy
  • wordless
  • yielding

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