Backbone and Spinelessness

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Backbone noun - The strength of mind that enables a person to endure pain or hardship.

Usage example: it takes backbone to stand up to the kind of suffering that some cancer patients must endure

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Spinelessness is an antonym for backbone in topics: strength of character, spinal column of vertebrate.

Nearby Word: backboned

Spinelessness noun - The quality or state of lacking strength of will or character.

Usage example: the spinelessness that the grown woman has shown in dealing with her overbearing mother

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Backbone is an antonym for spinelessness.

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