Timidity
[tɪ'mɪdətɪ] or [tɪ'mɪdəti]
Definition
(noun.) fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities.
(noun.) fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Timorousness, fearfulness, skittishness, shyness, cowardice, pusillanimity, want of courage.[2]. Diffidence, bashfulness, coyness, sheepishness, shamefacedness.
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Examples
- I availed myself of your obliging hints to correct my timidity, and it is unnecessary to add that they were perfectly accurate. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Almost for the first time in his life, Mr. Sedley found himself talking, without the least timidity or hesitation, to a person of the other sex. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- That is why we, the children of frontiersmen, city builders and immigrants, surprise Europe constantly with our worship of constitutions, our social and political timidity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We were talking about your husband, Dorothea said, with some timidity. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She liked natural manners--a little timidity only set them off. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She did not move, and he came towards her with more doubt and timidity in his face than she had ever seen before. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But again the timidity of the wild thing in the face of human habitation swept over Tarzan of the Apes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- But he had also the prejudices and scrupulous timidity of his persecuted people, and those were to be conquered. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Did you ever see a counterfeit of timidity, Mr. Lorry? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Mrs. Archer and her group felt a certain timidity concerning these persons. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Then there came the voices of the two children calling shyly outside the door, softly, with self-excited timidity: 'Ursula! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I'm afraid they mightn't like it, began Laurie, with unusual timidity in such matters. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- His glance in reply to hers was so chill that she felt her timidity increased; yet she turned and passed her hand through his arm. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For Jos's former shyness and blundering blushing timidity had given way to a more candid and courageous self-assertion of his worth. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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