Diffidence

Noun

 * 1) The state of being diffident, timid or shy; reticence or self-effacement.

Adjectives for Diffidence
delicate; rustic; becoming; excessive; amused; half-boyish; proper.

Verbs for Diffidence
attack—; disperse—; enter into with—; indulge in—; lay aside—; manifest—; practise—; proceed from—; speak with—; teach—; —afflicts; —assails; —creeps over; —prevents; —shames; —submits to; — terrifies; —wounds.

Thesaurus
Pyrrhonism, afraidness, apprehension, bashfulness, boggle, boggling, caution, cautiousness, compunction, demur, demurral, distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, falter, faltering, fearfulness, half-belief, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitating, hesitation, jumpiness, lack of self-confidence, lack of self-reliance, leeriness, misdoubt, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, modesty, objection, pause, protest, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmishness, question, recoil, scruple, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, self-depreciation, self-detraction, self-distrust, self-doubt, self-effacement, shadow of doubt, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shrinking, shrinkingness, shyness, skepticalness, skepticism, skittishness, stage fright, startlishness, stickling, suspicion, suspiciousness, tentativeness, timidity, timorousness, total skepticism, uncertainty, wariness, weak ego

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Verleentheid
 * Bulgarian:, ,


 * Dutch: Verlegenheid, terughoudendheid , bescheidenheid
 * Russian: застенчивость, робость, неуверенность