shyness

English

Etymology

From shy +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃaɪnəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪnəs

Noun

shyness (usually uncountable, plural shynesses)

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

   Her shyness kept her from asking him to the prom.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:shyness

Derived terms

• canopy shyness
• crown shyness
• love-shyness

Translations

quality of being shy

• Armenian: ամոթ (hy) (amotʻ)
• Belarusian: сарамлі́васць f (saramlívascʹ)
• Breton: abafded (br) f, abafder (br) m
• Catalan: timidesa (ca) f, timiditat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: pì-sù

  Mandarin: 羞怯 (zh) (xiūqiè, xiūquè)

• Czech: plachost (cs) f, stydlivost (cs) f
• Danish: genert
• Dutch: verlegenheid (nl) f
• Finnish: ujous (fi)
• French: timidité (fr) f
• Galician: timidez f
• German: Schüchternheit (de), Scheu (de) f, Scheuheit (de) f
• Greek: ντροπαλότητα (el) f (ntropalótita), ντροπαλοσύνη (el) f (ntropalosýni)
• Hausa: kunya f
• Irish: cotadh m
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: شەرم (ckb) (şerm)

• Latin: verēcundia f
• Latvian: biklums m, biklība f
• Malayalam: ലജ്ജ (ml) (lajja), നാണം (ml) (nāṇaṁ)
• Maori: ninihi
• Old Czech: chúlost f
• 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)