diffidence

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (countable, uncountable) The state of being diffident, timid or shy; reticence or self-effacement.
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Mistrust, distrust, lack of confidence in someone or something.

Sinonieme

shyness

timidity

bashfulness

hesitation

modesty

nervousness

reserve

self-doubt

self-distrust

leave

nervous

pusillanimity

qualm

rawness

respect

restraint

scruple

self-consciousness

tact

thoughtfulness

closing price

feeling constraint

fear of troubling someone

want of confidence

compunction

coyness

defeat

demur

demureness

discretion

distrust

hesitance

Vertalings

timidité

kaçınma

çekingenlik

mahcubiyet

Zurückhaltung

Schüchternheit

utangaçlık

retraimento

çekinme

Beherrschung

Unfreiheit

Befangenheit

Verlust

encongiment

Rücksicht

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈdɪfɪdəns/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Latin diffīdentiam (“distrust”), from diffīdere (“to mistrust”), from dis- and fīdere (“to trust”). Attested since ∼1400. The original sense was antonymous with confidence, and the modern sense of ‘distrusting oneself’ dates from the 1650s.