Synonyms for bashfulness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : bash-fuhl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæʃ fəl

Définition of bashfulness

Origin : 1540s, from baishen "to be filled with consternation or dismay" (mid-14c.), from Old French baissier "bring down, humiliate" (see abash). Related: Bashfully; bashfulness (1530s).

noun modesty

Example sentences :

I could grow eloquent over my gifts, if it were not that my bashfulness might embarrass me.
Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever

Barrington was the most diffident of men; his bashfulness amounted to actual pain.
Extract from : « Barrington » by Charles James Lever

The attitude of warding off reveals itself as fastidiousness and as bashfulness.
Extract from : « Erasmus and the Age of Reformation » by Johan Huizinga

Stendhal says that our two most patent vices are bashfulness and cant.
Extract from : « Joyous Gard » by Arthur Christopher Benson

Let the inscription on my tombstone be—'Died of Bashfulness.'
Extract from : « The Blunders of a Bashful Man » by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

Then said little May, who did not know what bashfulness was, 'I wish I might go and see him, too.
Extract from : « Chatterbox, 1906 » by Various

Now, bashfulness is almost always a sure sign of amour-propre.
Extract from : « The Silver Lining » by John Roussel

Nigel, not being troubled by bashfulness, quickly followed his guide.
Extract from : « Villegagnon » by W.H.G. Kingston

Some do this from mere bashfulness, but Felicia showed no bashfulness in any other way.
Extract from : « A Forgotten Hero » by Emily Sarah Holt

It seemed to Carrie he was as yet only overcoming the last traces of the bashfulness of youth.
Extract from : « Sister Carrie » by Theodore Dreiser

Antonyms for bashfulness

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