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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TIMID'ITY, n. [L. timiditas.] Fearfulness; want of courage or boldness to face danger; timorousness; habitual cowardice. Timidity in one person may be a good trait of character, while in another it is a deep reproach.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

noun see timid

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see timid

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Timorousness, fearfulness, skittishness, shyness, cowardice, pusillanimity, want of courage, timidness. 2. Diffidence, bashfulness, coyness, sheepishness, shamefacedness.

Moby Thesaurus

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