| Main Entry: | diffidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hesitancy; lack of confidence |
Synonyms: |
backwardness, bashfulness, constraint, doubt, fear, hesitation, humility, insecurity, meekness, modesty, mousiness, reluctance, reserve, self-consciousness, sheepishness, shyness, timidity, timidness, timorousness, unassertiveness |
Antonyms: |
boldness, confidence |
| Main Entry: | constraint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shyness |
Synonyms: |
bashfulness, diffidence, embarrassment, hang-up, humility, inhibition, modesty, repression, reservation, reserve, restraint, timidity |
Antonyms: |
aggression |
| Main Entry: | doubt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of faith, conviction; questioning |
Synonyms: |
agnosticism, ambiguity, apprehension, confusion, demurral, difficulty, diffidence, dilemma, disbelief, discredit, disquiet, distrust, dubiety, dubiousness, faithlessness, faltering, fear, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, incredulity, indecision, irresolution, lack of confidence, misgiving, mistrust, perplexity, problem, qualm, quandary, rejection, reluctance, scruple, skepticism, suspense, suspicion, uncertainty, vacillation, wavering |
Antonyms: |
belief, certainty, confidence, dependence, faith, reliance, trust |
| Main Entry: | humility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humbleness, modesty |
Synonyms: |
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 |
Antonyms: |
arrogance, assertiveness, egoism, pretentiousness, pride, self-importance |
| Main Entry: | modesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shyness |
Synonyms: |
bashfulness, celibacy, chastity, constraint, coyness, decency, delicacy, demureness, diffidence, discreetness, humbleness, humility, inhibition, innocence, lack of pretension, meekness, propriety, prudery, purity, quietness, reserve, reticence, self-effacement, simplicity, timidity, unobtrusiveness, unostentatiousness, unpretentiousness, virtue |
Antonyms: |
arrogance, boldness, braveness, conceit, courage, ego, pride, self-confidence |
| Main Entry: | reserve |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coolness of manner |
Synonyms: |
aloofness, backwardness, calmness, caution, coldness, constraint, coyness, demureness, diffidence, formality, inhibition, modesty, quietness, reluctance, repression, reservation, restraint, reticence, secretiveness, self-restraint, shyness, silence, suppression, taciturnity, uncommunicativeness, unresponsiveness |
Antonyms: |
friendliness, warmth |
| Main Entry: | shyness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bashfulness |
Synonyms: |
apprehension, coyness, demureness, diffidence, insecurity, meekness, modesty, reserve, restraint, reticence, sheepishness, timidity, timidness, timorousness |
| Main Entry: | backwardness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shyness |
Synonyms: |
bashfulness, coyness, demureness, diffidence, hesitancy, reluctance, reticence, timidness |
| Main Entry: | coyness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shyness |
Synonyms: |
bashfulness, demureness, diffidence, kittenishness, modesty, reserve, retiringness, sheepishness, timidity |
| Main Entry: | humbleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | modesty |
Synonyms: |
bashfulness, celibacy, chastity, constraint, coyness, decency, delicacy, demureness, diffidence, discreetness, humility, inhibition, innocence, lack of pretension, lowliness, meekness, propriety, prudery, purity, quietness, reserve, reticence, self-efface |