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What is the difference between coward and cowardice?

coward | cowardice | Derived terms |

Cowardice is a related term of coward.

Cowardice is a derived term of coward.



As nouns the difference between coward and cowardice

is that coward is a person who lacks courage while cowardice is lack of courage.

As an adjective coward

is cowardly.

As a proper noun Coward

is {{surname}.

coward

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who lacks courage.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part II Chapter IV, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
    • He tortured himself to find out how he could make his declaration to her, and always halting between the fear of displeasing her and the shame of being such a coward , he wept with discouragement and desire. Then he took energetic resolutions, wrote letters that he tore up, put it off to times that he again deferred.

    Synonyms

    * chicken * See also

    Derived terms

    * cowardly * cowardice

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Cowardly.
  • *, II.17:
  • *:It is a coward and servile humour, for a man to disguise and hide himselfe under a maske, and not dare to shew himselfe as he is.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He raised the house with loud and coward cries.
  • * Prior
    • Invading fears repel my coward joy.
  • (heraldry, of a lion) Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs.
    • English words suffixed with -ard

    cowardice

    English

    (wikipedia cowardice)

    Noun

  • Lack of courage.

    • Synonyms

    * cowardliness

    Related terms

    * coward * cowardly