timidity

Other forms of timidity

plural

timidities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about timidity

What does timidity mean?

timidity means "fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in timidity?

timidity has 4 syllables: ti-mid-i-ty. The stress falls on "mid". In IPA it is /təˈmɪdəti/.

What is another word for timidity?

Close synonyms include timidness, timorousness, timorousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of timidity?

The recorded antonyms are boldness.

Is timidity a common word?

timidity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with timidity?

1 word rhymes with timidity. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.