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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun shyness has 1 sense

• shyness(n = noun.feeling) - a feeling of fear of embarrassment;
is a kind of timidity, timidness, timorousness
Derived form adjective shy₁

CIDE DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

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

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