timidity
noun
the state or quality of lacking in self-assurance, courage, or bravery.
timidities
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pluralof timidity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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What Are We to Do?, a study of the "rise and fall" of the British labor movement, is an urbane, inquisitional chronicle of missed opportunities, compromises, retreats, timidities, defeats.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a standing challenge, a rebuke, to the rigidities and timidities of the newly dominant right and left.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it takes a typically Victorian literary license to account for the difference between the groping timidities of Albert Grope and the caustic, scrupulous and sometimes slightly patronizing style of his more mature meditations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only a combination of great disasters, great stupidities, great timidities could ever allow war to come so close to U.S. shores.
From Time Magazine Archive
So many feelings, such varied timidities, urged them forward, yet held them back.
From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes
