Timidity is a lack of courage or confidence. Criticised for timidity.
It is used of institutions as often as people, and a timid plan is the commonest complaint. Timidity in a crisis costs more than a wrong decision, since nothing is done at all.
1nountimidityA lack of courage or confidence.
“The timidity of the response was noticed everywhere.”
timidity is a quality.
Latin timiditas comes from timidus, fearful, from timere, to fear.
Latin
timiditas
Middle French
timidité
English, today
timidity
From timid + -ity, from Middle French timidité, from Latin timiditas.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA