bashfulness

see definition of bashfulness

nounmodesty

Synonyms for bashfulness

noun modesty

Antonyms for bashfulness

constraint

noun. shyness

constraints

noun. shyness

coyness

noun. shyness

diffidence

noun. hesitancy; lack of confidence

Word Origin & History

1540s, from baishen "to be filled with consternation or dismay" (mid-14c.), from Old French baissier "bring down, humiliate" (see abash). Related: Bashfully; bashfulness (1530s).

Example Sentences for bashfulness

I could grow eloquent over my gifts, if it were not that my bashfulness might embarrass me.

Barrington was the most diffident of men; his bashfulness amounted to actual pain.

The attitude of warding off reveals itself as fastidiousness and as bashfulness.

Stendhal says that our two most patent vices are bashfulness and cant.

Let the inscription on my tombstone be—'Died of Bashfulness.'

Then said little May, who did not know what bashfulness was, 'I wish I might go and see him, too.

Now, bashfulness is almost always a sure sign of amour-propre.

Nigel, not being troubled by bashfulness, quickly followed his guide.

Some do this from mere bashfulness, but Felicia showed no bashfulness in any other way.

It seemed to Carrie he was as yet only overcoming the last traces of the bashfulness of youth.

bashfulness

Synonyms for bashfulness

Antonyms for bashfulness

More words related to bashfulness

backwardness

constraint

constraints

coyness

diffidence

embarrassment