Modesty

Noun

 * 1) The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.
 * 2) Moderate behaviour; reserve.
 * 3)  Pudency, prudish avoidance of sexual explicitness.

Adjectives for Modesty
shaking; womanly; delicate; singular; maidenly; pleasing; extreme; daring; beauteous; virgin; innate; incredible; hypocritical; unassuming; characteristic; austere; bashful; becoming; habitual; marital; ill-placed; boastful; cold; false; indignant; artful.

Verbs for Modesty
bait with—; counterfeit—; deport with—; discern—; extinguish—; feign—; inculcate—; personify—; recommend—; respect—; veil in—; violate—; wrap in—; —charms; —compels; —enjoins; —guards; —heightens; —hides; —padlocks; —restrains; shuns; —survives.

Thesaurus
self-denial, self-devotion, self-effacement, self-forgetfulness, self-immolation, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness, self-renouncement, self-sacrifice, self-subjection, selflessness, shame, shrinking, shyness, simpleness, smallness, standoffishness, stickling, subduedness, submissiveness, suppression, teachableness, tediousness, tolerableness, unacquisitiveness, unaffability, unapproachability, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, unexpansiveness, unimportance, unpossessiveness, unpretentiousness, unselfishness, withdrawal, withdrawnness, aloofness, altruism, backwardness, bashfulness, blankness, boggle, boggling, chilliness, coldness, commitment, compunction, consecration, constraint, coolness, decency, decorousness, decorum, dedication, delicacy, demur, demurral, detachment, devotion, diffidence, discreetness, discretion, disinterest, disinterestedness, distance, dullness, elegance, expressionlessness, fairishness, falter, faltering, frigidity, frostiness, guardedness, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, homeliness, humbleness, humility, iciness, impassiveness, impassivity, impersonality, inaccessibility, indifference, ingloriousness, innocuousness, introversion, lackluster, lowlihood, lowliness, meanness, mediocreness, mediocrity, meekness, middlingness, moderateness, modestness, objection, passableness, pause, plainness, poorness, propriety, protest, pudency, pudicity, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmishness, recoil, remoteness, repression, reserve, reservedness, respectability, restraint, reticence, reticency, retirement, sacrifice, scruple, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, seemliness, self-abasement, self-abnegation,

Etymology
From modest: + -y:.

Derived terms

 * false modesty

Related terms

 * modestly

Antonyms

 * immodesty
 * extravagance
 * impudence

Translations

 * Armenian:
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 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: vaatimattomuus
 * German:
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 * Polish:
 * Romanian: modestie
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
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 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch: gereserveerdheid, schroom
 * Greek:


 * Polish:
 * Russian:, сдержанность
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:


 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Finnish: säädyllisyys,, kainous
 * Greek:, σεμνότητα
 * Polish:


 * Russian: ,
 * Serbian:
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 * Roman:


 * : modestie
 * : అణకువ (aNakuva)