- timidity
- n1. timorousness, pusillanimity, fear-fulness, fearsomeness, lily-liveredness, faintheartedness, weak-heartedness, Inf. chicken-heartedness, Inf. chicken-liveredness, Sl. yellow-belliedness; cowardice, cowardliness, dastardliness, poltroonery, cravenness; faint heart, weak knees, white feather, no backbone, a backbone of banana, Inf. chicken heart, Inf. funk, Sl. cold feet, Sl. yellow streak.2. shyness, bashfulness, diffidence, demureness, coyness, sheepishness, Archaic. verecundity.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.