shyness

English

Etymology

shy +‎ -ness

Noun

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

See also Thesaurus:shyness

Translations

quality of being shy

Belarusian: сарамлі́васць f (saramlívascʹ)
Breton: abafded (br) f, abafder (br) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 羞怯 (zh) (xiūqiè, xiūquè)

Min Nan: pì-sù
Czech: plachost f, stydlivost 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:
Sorani: شه‌رم‎ (ku) (şerm)
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)

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