Definition for Diffidence:

• Want of confidence; distrust of one's self; modest reserve.

Synonyms for Diffidence:

• n.

  •
  • restraint,
  • reticence.
  •coyness (noun)
  • kittenishnesses.
  •diffidence (noun)
  • self-distrust,
  • self-doubt.
  •doubt (noun)
  • lack of confidence,
  • waverings,
  • agnosticism,
  • Uncertainties,
  • demurral,
  • scruples,
  • scruple.
  •feeling (noun)
  • diffidence.
  •hesitancy; lack of confidence (noun)
  • insecurity,
  • bashfulness,
  • meekness,
  • mousiness,
  • sheepishness,
  • unassertiveness,
  • self-consciousness,
  • timorousness,
  • hesitation,
  • reluctance,
  • fear.
  •humbleness (noun)
  • selfeffaces,
  • self effaces,
  • self efface,
  • selfefface,
  • self-effaces.
  •humility (noun)
  • self-abnegation,
  • Non-resistance,
  • docility,
  • fawning,
  • obsequiousness,
  • unobtrusiveness,
  • lack of pride,
  • self-abasement,
  • docilities,
  • subservience,
  • subjection,
  • nonresistance.
  •reserve (noun)
  • re serve,
  • un-responsivenesses,
  • re serves,
  • selfrestraint,
  • re-serves,
  • un responsiveness,
  • un responsivenesses,
  • self restraint,
  • un-responsiveness,
  • re-serve.
  •shyness (noun)
  • in-security,
  • in securities,
  • in-securities.
  •taciturnity (noun)
  • selfcontrol.
  •uncommunicativeness (noun)
  • un-communicativeness,
  • un communicativenesses,
  • un communicativeness,
  • un-communicativenesses.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • self-effacement,
  • ostentation,
  • demureness,
  • vanity.
  •pusillanimity
  • cowardice.

Paraphrases for Diffidence:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    timidity.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    reluctance.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    insecurity, hesitation.

Antonyms for Diffidence:

• n.

  • feeling
    confidence.
  • hesitancy; lack of confidence
    pride, courage, certainty, boldness, arrogance.
  • Other antonyms:
    loquaciousness, forwardness, conceit, sauciness, freedom, frankness, haughtiness, impudence, indiscretion, abandon, loquacity, pertness, egotism, self-sufficiency, Self-conceit, assumption, sociability.

Diffidence Sentence Examples:

• Geraldine knew what the man thought of her, but she approved of the respectful diffidence he generally displayed.

• He has none of my diffidence.

Homophones for Diffidence:

• daftness, doubting, deftness, diphthongise, devoutness, diphthongize, dipodomys, diphthong, dividing, devotedness.

Hypernym for Diffidence:

• n.

  • feeling
    unassertiveness, hesitance, hesitancy.

Hyponym for Diffidence:

• n.

  • feeling
    timorousness, timidity, timidness.