bashfulness

English

bashfulness (usually uncountable, plural bashfulnesses)

The quality or property of being bashful
Synonyms: shyness, reserve, timidity
- 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
  I, smiling in his face, took the letter, and immediately catching gently hold of his shirt sleeve, drew him towards me, blushing, and almost trembling; for surely his extreme bashfulness, and utter inexperience, call'd for, at least, all the advances to encourage him

the quality or property of being bashful

Arabic: خَجَل (ar) m (ḵajal), حَيَاء m (ḥayāʔ)
Bengali: হায়া (bn) (haẏa)
Finnish: kainostelu (fi)
German: Scham (de) f
Greek: αιδημοσύνη (el) f (aidimosýni), ντροπαλοσύνη (el) f (ntropalosýni), ντροπαλότητα (el) f (ntropalótita)
Ancient: αἰδοσύνη f (aidosúnē), αἰδημοσύνη f (aidēmosúnē)
Irish: cotadh m
Latin: verēcundia f
Malayalam: ശാലീനത (ml) (śālīnata), ലജ്ജ (ml) (lajja)
Romanian: rușine (ro) f

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