[syn: timidity, timorousness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Timidity \Ti*mid"i*ty\, n. [L. timiditas: cf. F. timidit['e].]
The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
timidity
n 1: fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making
decisions [syn: timidity, timidness, timorousness]
2: fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or
activities [syn: timidity, timorousness] [ant:
boldness, daring, hardihood, hardiness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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