timorousness
IPA: tˈɪmɝʌsnʌs
noun
- The property of being timorous.
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Examples of "timorousness" in Sentences
- McCoy saw an animal scurry through the tall grass with the tiny timorousness of a mouse.
- Later we take our longer strides, with secret timorousness, preferring a crowd of companions.
- Others have pointed out the timorousness of what they've done, most notably E. J. Dionne and Ezra Klein.
- Its main character is its incurable timorousness; it is forever grasping at straws held out by demagogues... its dreams are of banshees, hobgloblins, bugaboos.
- And gumption is always welcome (whereas the timorousness of anonymity will be quashed -- c.f. the A-Z of the blog I can't be bothered linking to at the moment).
- Is this parochialism, this timorousness and lack of imagination, inevitable in a period like our own, when the unknown looms menacingly and one natural reaction is certainly to draw back, to find refuge in the familiar?