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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But few will fail to join in the familiar battlecry of her hedonism: "Away with hypocrisies, timidities, doubts!"
From Time Magazine Archive
This culmination of a series of sentimental and financial timidities seemed to me to indicate that the Board was not acting fearlessly for the best interests of the students.
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
It is a standing challenge, a rebuke, to the rigidities and timidities of the newly dominant right and left.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was not so remote a time that I myself had known them, those blind, uncouth timidities.
From Famous Modern Ghost Stories by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
