About The Word Diffidence
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Diffidence
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What's The Definition Of Diffidence?
[n] lack of self-confidence
Synonyms | Synonyms for Diffidence: self-distrust | self-doubt Related Terms | Find terms related to Diffidence: afraidness | apprehension | bashfulness | boggle | boggling | caution | cautiousness | compunction | demur | demurral | distrust | distrustfulness | doubt | doubtfulness | dubiety | dubiousness | falter | faltering | fearfulness | half-belief | hesitance | hesitancy | hesitating | hesitation | jumpiness | lack of self-confidence | lack of self-reliance | leeriness | misdoubt | misgiving | mistrust | mistrustfulness | modesty | objection | pause | protest | Pyrrhonism | qualm | qualm of conscience | qualmishness | question | recoil | scruple | scrupulosity | scrupulousness | self-depreciation | self-detraction | self-distrust | self-doubt | self-effacement | shadow of doubt | shilly-shally | shilly-shallying | shrinking | shrinkingness | shyness | skepticalness | skepticism | skittishness | stage fright | startlishness | stickling | suspicion | suspiciousness | tentativeness | timidity | timorousness | total skepticism | uncertainty | wariness | weak ego See Also | hesitance | hesitancy | personality | timidity | timidness | timorousness | unassertiveness Diffidence In Webster's Dictionary \Dif"fi*dence\, n. [L. diffidentia.]
1. The state of being diffident; distrust; want of
confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of
others. [Archaic]
That affliction grew heavy upon me, and weighed me
down even to a diffidence of God's mercy. --Donne.
2. Distrust of one's self or one's own powers; lack of
self-reliance; modesty; modest reserve; bashfulness.
It is good to speak on such questions with
diffidence. --Macaulay.
An Englishman's habitual diffidence and awkwardness
of address. --W. Irving.
Syn: Humility; bashfulness; distrust; suspicion; doubt; fear;
timidity; apprehension; hesitation. See {Humility}, and
{Bashfulness}.
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