| 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 |
| Main Entry: | timidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2 |
Related
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
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| 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, bête 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 |