Fromtimid +-ity, fromMiddle Frenchtimidité, fromLatintimiditas.
timidity (countable anduncountable,pluraltimidities)
- The state of beingtimid;shyness.
1849,Minutes of the committee of council on education, page82:[…] instead of the joyous voices of his playfellows he hears the rough commands of an unindulgent master or a scolding mistress; — he is continually reproached for his awkwardness andtimidity, and reminded of his pauper origin.
