| Main Entry: | bashfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | modesty |
Synonyms: |
abashment, humility, reservation, reserve, sheepishness, shyness, timidity |
Antonyms: |
boldness, confidence, pride |
| 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: | 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: | embarrassment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humiliation, shame |
Synonyms: |
awkward situation, awkwardness, bashfulness, bind, boo boo, chagrin, clumsiness, complexity, confusion, destitution, difficulty, dilemma, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, distress, egg on face, faux pas, fix, hitch, hot seat, hot water, impecuniosity, indebtedness, indiscretion, inhibition, mess, mistake, mortification, pickle, pinch, plight, poverty, predicament, puzzle, quandary, scrape, self-consciousness, shyness, snag, stew, strait, tangle, timidity, unease, uneasiness |
Antonyms: |
comfort, confidence |
| 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: | stage fright |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fear of performing onstage |
Synonyms: |
aphonia, aphonia clericorum, aphonia paralytica, aphonia paranoica, bashfulness, buck fever, butterflies, flop sweat, freeze, hysterical aphonia, loss of speech, mike fright, mutism, spastic aphonia |
| Main Entry: | timidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shyness |
Synonyms: |
bashfulness, quiet, reserve, timidness |
| Notes: | temerity is daring or recklessness; timidity is fearfulness or hesitancy |
| 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 |