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• n  fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions
• n  fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities

• There's clearly an evolutionary advantage to this natural timorousness.
• Worse, that timorousness is not cured when he succeeds at last.
• They were a time of social timorousnessand the last great period of local peace.

• timidity
• timidness

• boldness