fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions
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fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities
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Timidity \Ti*mid"i*ty\, n. [L. timiditas: cf. F. timidit['e].] The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
And he deplored what he called "the timidity" of the governments of East Germany, Romania, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia in not granting greater freedom of expression and assembly to their people.
He accused some French executives of timidity, saying they should be pursuing markets inside Germany.
That would harm Liberal Democrat chances in the party's target seats. Mr Ashdown said Labour's manifesto was 'particularly disappointing' because of its timidity.
We hardly need reminding that it was timidity in the democracies, and deliberate blindness to terrible deeds, that emboldened Hitler and Stalin to pursue their great crimes.
The old ways brought shortages in a land of plenty and political timidity to a people of great warrior tradition.
And only a couple of branches have been fitted out with the bank's new insignia and symbols. This timidity stems in large part from the bank's roots.
Whenever the list comes close to 218 names, the Speaker routinely pressures Members to drop off. The list's secrecy allows them to conceal their timidity from the voters.
"He must cast aside ambivalence and hesitation and timidity and adopt a more energetic and engaged policy toward the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe," Mitchell said.
That move likely will be accompanied by more harsh rhetoric from majority Democrats about the administration's timidity in seizing historic opportunities that the United States has sought for more than four decades in Eastern Europe.
Mr. Pitt chided the Reagan-appointed commission for its "timidity" in rule-making and its reluctance to ask Congress to address legal "anomalies."
That prompted the shareholder lawsuits and the apparent timidity by the outside directors.
With its timidity, the Bush administration has let the capital-gains debate fall hostage to the politics of "fairness."