English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
shy + -ness
Pronunciation[edit]
shyness (usually uncountable, plural shynesses)
- The quality of being shy; a fear of social interactions.
- His shyness kept him from asking her to the prom.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
quality of being shy
- Belarusian: сарамлі́васць f (saramlívascʹ)
- Breton: abafded (br) f, abafder (br) m
- Catalan: timidesa (ca) f, timiditat (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 羞怯 (zh) (xiūqiè, xiūquè)
- Min Nan: pì-sù
- Czech: plachost f, stydlivost (cs) f
- Danish: genert
- Finnish: ujous (fi)
- French: timidité (fr) f
- Galician: timidez f
- German: Schüchternheit (de), Scheu (de) f, Scheuheit (de) f
- Greek: ντροπαλότητα (el) f (dropalótita), ντροπαλοσύνη (el) f (dropalosýni)
- Hausa: kunya f
- Irish: cotadh m
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: شەرم (ku) (şerm)
- Latin: verēcundia f
- Latvian: biklums m, biklība f
- Maori: ninihi
- Polish: nieśmiałość (pl) f
- Portuguese: timidez (pt) f
- Romanian: timiditate (ro) f
- Russian: скро́мность (ru) f (skrómnostʹ), засте́нчивость (ru) f (zasténčivostʹ)
- Spanish: timidez (es) f
- Swahili: soni (sw)
- Telugu: బిడియం (te) (biḍiyaṁ)
- Turkish: utangaçlık (tr)
- Ukrainian: соромли́вість f (soromlývistʹ), сором'язли́вість f (soromʺjazlývistʹ)
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