Thesaurus / timorousness
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synonyms for timorousness
- shyness
- abasement
- bashfulness
- demureness
- diffidence
- docility
- lowliness
- meekness
- mortification
- nonresistance
- obedience
- obsequiousness
- passiveness
- reserve
- resignation
- self-abasement
- self-abnegation
- servility
- sheepishness
- subjection
- submissiveness
- subservience
- timidity
- unobtrusiveness
- unpretentiousness
- fawning
- inferiority complex
- lack of pride
- apprehension
- backwardness
- bashfulness
- coyness
- demureness
- diffidence
- insecurity
- meekness
- modesty
- reserve
- restraint
- reticence
- sheepishness
- timidity
- timidness
- insecurity
- modesty
- reticence
- timidity
- apprehension
- coyness
- demureness
- diffidence
- meekness
- reserve
- restraint
- sheepishness
- timidness
- apprehension
- backwardness
- bashfulness
- coyness
- demureness
- diffidence
- insecurity
- meekness
- modesty
- reserve
- restraint
- reticence
- sheepishness
- timidity
- retiringness
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How to use timorousness in a sentence
Timorousness, arising from an undue regard to the world, is too often a hinderance to religious profession.
FEMALE SCRIPTURE BIOGRAPHIES, VOL. IIFRANCIS AUGUSTUS COXDoubtless his timorousness was as great as theirs, only his timeliness was less.
THE LIFE OF FRANCIS THOMPSONEVERARD MEYNELLTheir religion was always directed to that—a circumstance quite in keeping with their natural cowardice and timorousness.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898VARIOUSMrs. Gallito, all timorousness again, beat her hands lightly together, in a distressful flurry.
THE BLACK PEARLMRS. WILSON WOODROWDespite his timorousness in the matter of his wife, Abraham was a man of wonderful courage and warlike ability.
A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE DEVILCHARLES BRADLAUGH“Long generations” of subjection are, strangely enough, held to excuse the timorousness and the shifts of women to-day.
THE COLOUR OF LIFEALICE MEYNELLOur Nation is too great, both in material strength and in moral power, to indulge in bluster or to be suspected of timorousness.
SPEECHES OF BENJAMIN HARRISONBENJAMIN HARRISONTimorousness had vanished; the soul that had woven its own music in solitude had been translated to a higher universe.
AN ENGAGEMENT OF CONVENIENCELOUIS ZANGWILLA virginal sweetness and timorousness—no flare of gaiety, no suggestion of cities, music, quick laughter.
MAIN STREETSINCLAIR LEWISAn acknowledgment of our timorousness seemed to hearten us, and we worked the paddles in a more whole-souled fashion.
COMMODORE BARNEY'S YOUNG SPIESJAMES OTISWORDS RELATED TO TIMOROUSNESS
- abasement
- bashfulness
- demureness
- diffidence
- docility
- fawning
- inferiority complex
- lack of pride
- lowliness
- meekness
- mortification
- nonresistance
- obedience
- obsequiousness
- passiveness
- reserve
- resignation
- self-abasement
- self-abnegation
- servility
- sheepishness
- shyness
- subjection
- submissiveness
- subservience
- timidity
- timorousness
- unobtrusiveness
- unpretentiousness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.