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timidity

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Main Entry: timidity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shyness

Synonyms:

bashfulness, quiet, reserve, timidness
Notes: temerity is daring or recklessness; timidity is fearfulness or hesitancy
Main Entry: timidity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fear

Synonyms:

cowardice, cowardliness, faintheartedness, fearfulness, timorousness

Antonyms:

audacity, boldness, guts, nerve, stoutheartedness
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Main Entry: timidity
Part of Speech: noun1, noun2
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Adjectives:
afraid, afraid of one's own shadow, aghast, alarming, apprehensive, argh, awe-inspiring, awestricken, awestruck, awful, bashful, blushing, breathless, constrained, coy, daphnean, demure, diffident, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, faint-hearted, fearful, fearing, fearsome, fell, fidgety, formidable, frightened, frightened to death, ghastly, haunted with the fear of, horrible, horrid, horrific, horror-stricken, horror-struck, humble, in a fright, in fear, in hysterics, inspiring fear, mim, modest, more frightened than hurt, nervous, out of contenance, overmodest, pale as a ghost, pale as ashes, pale as death, panic-stricken, panic-struck, pavid, perilous, poor in spirit, portentous, pudibund, pusillanimous, redoubtable, reserved, restless, reticent, revolting, shaky, shamefaced, sheepish, shocking, shy, skittish, terrible, terrific, terror-stricken, terror-struck, timid, timorous, tremendous, tremulous, trepid, unaspiring, unassuming, unboastful, unobtrusive, unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious, verecund, white as a sheet
Main Entry: cold feet
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: loss of nerve preventing completion of an action

Synonyms:

anxiety, apprehension, backing out, chicken heart, doubt, faint heart, fear, fear of carrying out an activity, reservations, second thoughts, timidity, weak knees, white feather, yellow streak
Main Entry: constraint
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shyness

Synonyms:

bashfulness, diffidence, embarrassment, hang-up, humility, inhibition, modesty, repression, reservation, reserve, restraint, timidity

Antonyms:

aggression
Main Entry: diffidence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hesitancy; lack of confidence

Synonyms:

backwardness, bashfulness, constraint, doubt, fear, hesitation, humility, insecurity, meekness, modesty, mousiness, reluctance, reserve, self-consciousness, sheepishness, shyness, timidity, timidness, timorousness, unassertiveness

Antonyms:

boldness, confidence
Main Entry: embarrassment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: humiliation, shame

Synonyms:

awkward situation, awkwardness, bashfulness, bind, boo boo, chagrin, clumsiness, complexity, confusion, destitution, difficulty, dilemma, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, distress, egg on face, faux pas, fix, hitch, hot seat, hot water, impecuniosity, indebtedness, indiscretion, inhibition, mess, mistake, mortification, pickle, pinch, plight, poverty, predicament, puzzle, quandary, scrape, self-consciousness, shyness, snag, stew, strait, tangle, timidity, unease, uneasiness

Antonyms:

comfort, confidence
Main Entry: fear
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: alarm, apprehension

Synonyms:

abhorrence, agitation, angst, anxiety, aversion, awe, bĂȘte noire, chickenheartedness, cold feet, cold sweat, concern, consternation, cowardice, creeps, despair, discomposure, dismay, disquietude, distress, doubt, dread, faintheartedness, foreboding, fright, funk, horror, jitters, misgiving, nightmare, panic, phobia, presentiment, qualm, recreancy, reverence, revulsion, scare, suspicion, terror, timidity, trembling, tremor, trepidation, unease, uneasiness, worry

Antonyms:

bravery, courage, fearlessness, heroism, unconcern
Main Entry: humility
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: humbleness, modesty

Synonyms:

abasement, bashfulness, demureness, diffidence, docility, fawning, inferiority complex, lack of pride, lowliness, meekness, mortification, nonresistance, obedience, obsequiousness, passiveness, reserve, resignation, self-abasement, self-abnegation, servility, sheepishness, shyness, subjection, submissiveness, subservience, timidity, timorousness, unobtrusiveness, unpretentiousness

Antonyms:

arrogance, assertiveness, egoism, pretentiousness, pride, self-importance
Main Entry: modesty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shyness

Synonyms:

bashfulness, celibacy, chastity, constraint, coyness, decency, delicacy, demureness, diffidence, discreetness, humbleness, humility, inhibition, innocence, lack of pretension, meekness, propriety, prudery, purity, quietness, reserve, reticence, self-effacement, simplicity, timidity, unobtrusiveness, unostentatiousness, unpretentiousness, virtue

Antonyms:

arrogance, boldness, braveness, conceit, courage, ego, pride, self-confidence
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