Pusillanimity
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Pusillanimity (from the ecclesiastical Latin pusillanimis, a translation of the Greek olugopsukhos), from pusillus ‘very small’ + animus ‘mind,’ + -ous) is the vice of being timid and cowardly, and thus not living up to one's full potential. It's antithesis is magnanimity, as defined by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics.
As an adjective, the concept is expressed as "pusillanimous," i.e. "He is rather pusillanimous."
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