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Timorousness

noun
1.
Fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions.  Synonyms: timidity, timidness.
2.
Fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities.  Synonym: timidity.





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"Timorousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... her chair in a great hurry, and proceeded to embrace her young guest tenderly, though with a little timorousness. The young lady submitted to the ...
— A Fair Barbarian • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... will deny Lloyd George's courage. On a hundred stricken fields he has shown it. Yet he confesses to a timorousness and nervousness whenever he is waiting on a public platform with a speech ahead of him. This proven, stern man of action is just a trembling bunch of nerves, afraid of the people in front of him, afraid of the people by his side on the platform, as he sits waiting the ...
— Lloyd George - The Man and His Story • Frank Dilnot


Words linked to "Timorousness" :   fright, faintheartedness, shyness, diffidence, cold feet, self-doubt, timid, timidity, fearfulness, self-distrust, boldness, fear, faintness


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