shyness

English

Etymology

shy +‎ -ness

Noun

shyness (usually uncountable, plural shynesses)

1. The quality of being shy; a fear of social interactions.

   His shyness kept him from asking her to the prom.

Synonyms

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Translations

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 (ha) f

• 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) (biḍiyaṃ)
• Turkish: utangaçlık (tr)
• Ukrainian: соромли́вість f (soromlývistʹ), сором'язли́вість f (soromʺjazlývistʹ)