Timidity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Timidity \Ti*mid"i*ty\, n. [L. timiditas: cf. F. timidit['e].]
     The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  timidity
       n 1: fear of the unknown or unfamiliar and of making decisions
            [syn: {timidness}, {timorousness}]
       2: fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or
          activities [syn: {timorousness}] [ant: {boldness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "timidity":
     afraidness, bashfulness, chicken-liveredness, chickenheartedness,
     confusion, cowardice, cowardliness, coyness, demureness, demurity,
     diffidence, embarrassment, faintheart, faintheartedness, fear,
     fearfulness, henheartedness, jumpiness, lily-liveredness,
     milksopism, milksoppiness, milksoppishness, mousiness,
     pigeonheartedness, self-consciousness, shamefacedness,
     shamefastness, shrinkingness, shyness, skittishness, softness,
     stage fright, stagefright, stammering, startlishness, timidness,
     timorousness, unmanfulness, unmanliness, weakheartedness, weakness,
     yellowness