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Synonyms for bashfulness

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Synonyms for bashfulness

an awkwardness or lack of self-confidence in the presence of others

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Synonyms for bashfulness

feeling embarrassed due to modesty

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To the beneficiary, as to the inferior, a certain feeling (so to speak) of bashfulness. Therefore, the benefactor has a stronger and better source of love, his own will and goodness (Vives, "On the Soul" 148)
Given time to overcome his initial bashfulness, Bad Bunny's sharp sense of humor comes through in person, too, but underneath that is the all-encompassing drive of an artist.
Joseph Parish in Waite Park, Minnesota, gave a leadership course to help people overcome their bashfulness and speak truth to power.
Socrates the narrator interprets the blush as bashfulness (aischuntelon).
They could also imply bashfulness, and it is said to bring prosperity and good luck to whoever receives them.
Perhaps, Found thinks, shy elk gain an advantage over bold elk and compensate for their bashfulness by accepting magpies.
She was, she said, "so busy mentally with my own concerns that I didn't develop any social instinct." As to what she called her "form" (her manner of dealing with things and people), it alternated between bashfulness and "violence," and she had particular difficulty in talking to people.
"I'm sorry that I have to say this about myself, but it is pride and bashfulness," he continued.
In terms of Dante's moral characterization of adolescenza, the poet identifies four traits that are indispensable for a healthy development and passage into gioventute: obedience ("Obedienza"), gentleness ("Soavitade"), bashfulness ("Vergogna"), and physical beauty ("Adornezza corporale") (Conv.
Most importantly, I find that yoga eliminates bashfulness, helps their self-expression and in the loss of excess weight, corrects posture, and it increases muscle flexibility, self-esteem as well as their immunity (as a result of increased oxygen levels in the bloodstream from circulation activity).
It is not bashfulness or being introvert.15Being a moral characteristic, it is considered a part of faith (Iman).16
I suspect your bashfulness and your presence here have much to do with a wound from your past, although this is simply conjecture ...'"
See, e.g., 2 Samuel Johnson, The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets 399 (1781) ("In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.").