Shyness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shyness \Shy"ness\, n.
     The quality or state of being shy. [Written also {shiness}.]
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Frequency in heavenly contemplation is particularly
           important to prevent a shyness bewtween God and thy


           soul.                                    --Baxter.
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     Syn: Bashfulness; reserve; coyness; timidity; diffidence. See
          {Bashfulness}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shyness
       n : a feeling of fear of embarrassment

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "shyness":
     afraidness, bashfulness, boggle, boggling, compunction, confusion,
     coyness, demur, demureness, demurity, demurral, diffidence,
     embarrassment, falter, faltering, fearfulness, hesitance,
     hesitancy, hesitation, jumpiness, modesty, mousiness, objection,
     pause, protest, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmishness, recoil,
     scruple, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, self-consciousness,
     shamefacedness, shamefastness, shrinking, shrinkingness,
     skittishness, stage fright, stagefright, stammering, startlishness,
     stickling, timidity, timidness, timorousness