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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shyness |
| Synonyms: | bashfulness, celibacy, chastity, constraint, coyness, decency, delicacy, demureness, diffidence, discreetness, humbleness, humility, inhibition, innocence, lack of pretension, meekness, propriety, prudery, purity, quietness, reserve, reticence, self-effacement, simplicity, timidity, unobtrusiveness, unostentatiousness, unpretentiousness, virtue |
| Antonyms: | arrogance, boldness, braveness, conceit, courage, ego, pride, self-confidence |
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| Main Entry: | chastity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celibacy, purity |
| Synonyms: | abstemiousness, abstinence, chasteness, cleanness, continence, decency, demureness, devotion, honor, immaculacy, innocence, integrity, modesty, monogamy, morality, naiveté, restraint, singleness, sinlessness, spotlessness, temperance, uprightness, virginity, virtue |
| Antonyms: | dirtiness, fornication |
| Main Entry: | constraint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shyness |
| Synonyms: | bashfulness, diffidence, embarrassment, hang-up, humility, inhibition, modesty, repression, reservation, reserve, restraint, timidity |
| Antonyms: | aggression |
| Main Entry: | decency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | respectable behavior |
| Synonyms: | appropriateness, ceremoniousness, civility, conventionality, correctness, courtesy, decorum, dignity, etiquette, fitness, fittingness, formality, good form, good manners, honesty, modesty, propriety, respectability, righteousness, seemliness, virtue |
| Antonyms: | immodesty, immorality, impropriety, indecency, obsceneness, obscenity |
| Main Entry: | diffidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hesitancy; lack of confidence |
| Synonyms: | backwardness, bashfulness, constraint, doubt, fear, hesitation, humility, insecurity, meekness, modesty, mousiness, reluctance, reserve, self-consciousness, sheepishness, shyness, timidity, timidness, timorousness, unassertiveness |
| Antonyms: | boldness, confidence |
| Main Entry: | honor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | integrity |
| Synonyms: | character, chastity, courage, decency, fairness, goodness, honestness, honesty, incorruption, incorruptness, innocence, modesty, morality, morals, principles, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtue |
| Antonyms: | blemish, disgrace, dishonor, ill repute, stigma |
| Main Entry: | propriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good manners |
| Synonyms: | accepted conduct, amenities, breeding, civilities, correctness, courtesy, decency, decorum, delicacy, dignity, etiquette, good behavior, good form, modesty, mores*, niceties, politeness, politesse, protocol, punctilio, rectitude, refinement, respectability, rules of conduct, seemliness, social conventions, social grace, the done thing |
| Antonyms: | bad manners, impropriety, misbehavior, misconduct |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reserve |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coolness of manner |
| Synonyms: | aloofness, backwardness, calmness, caution, coldness, constraint, coyness, demureness, diffidence, formality, inhibition, modesty, quietness, reluctance, repression, reservation, restraint, reticence, secretiveness, self-restraint, shyness, silence, suppression, taciturnity, uncommunicativeness, unresponsiveness |
| Antonyms: | friendliness, warmth |
| Main Entry: | resignation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | endurance, passivity |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, acquiescence, compliance, conformity, deference, docility, forbearing, fortitude, humbleness, humility, longanimity, lowliness, meekness, modesty, nonresistance, patience, patientness, resignedness, submission, submissiveness, sufferance |
| Antonyms: | impatience, intolerance, resistance |
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