Definition for Shyness:

• The quality of being shy.

Synonyms for Shyness:

• n.

  •
  • restraint.
  •bashfulness (noun)
  • nervousness,
  • insecurity,
  • stage fright,
  • apprehension,
  • mike fright,
  • reticence,
  • abashment,
  • sheepishness,
  • timorousness.
  •demureness (noun)
  • humbleness,
  • self-effacement.
  •diffidence (noun)
  • mousiness,
  • backwardness,
  • reluctance,
  • doubt,
  • fear,
  • timidity,
  • shyness,
  • in security,
  • hesitation,
  • bashfulness,
  • self-consciousness,
  • unassertiveness,
  • constraint.
  •humility (noun)
  • Non-resistance,
  • unpretentiousness,
  • subjection,
  • obedience,
  • fawning,
  • nonresistance,
  • lack of pride,
  • servility,
  • docilities,
  • unobtrusiveness,
  • Lowliness,
  • self-abasement,
  • self-abnegation,
  • submissiveness,
  • resignation,
  • abasement,
  • passiveness,
  • subservience,
  • obsequiousness,
  • docility,
  • inferiority complex.
  •reserve (noun)
  • repression,
  • reservation,
  • secretiveness,
  • aloofness,
  • calmness,
  • caution,
  • self-restraint,
  • coldness,
  • formality,
  • silence,
  • unresponsiveness,
  • quietness.
  •reticence (noun)
  • closeness.
  •shyness (noun)
  • meekness,
  • demureness,
  • coyness,
  • modesty.
  •taciturnity (noun)
  • selfcontrol,
  • self-control,
  • control.
  •uncommunicativeness (noun)
  • un-communicativeness,
  • un communicativenesses,
  • un communicativeness,
  • un-communicativenesses.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • timidness,
  • retiringness.
  •pusillanimity
  • cowardice.

Paraphrases for Shyness:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    timidity.

Antonyms for Shyness:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    self-sufficiency, pertness, impudence, conceit, assumption, boldness, Self-conceit, haughtiness, sociability, loquacity, sauciness, frankness, freedom, indiscretion, forwardness, abandon, egotism, loquaciousness, confidence, arrogance, assurance.

Shyness Sentence Examples:

• Overcome by shyness, she drew away from him.

• Yet so bewildered was she that when Sir James addressed her, she stared at him in what seemed a fit of shyness.

Homophones for Shyness:

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Hyponym for Shyness:

• n.

  • feeling
    timorousness, timidness, timidity.