diffidence

Significat (Anglès)

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.

Conceptes

encongiment

inseguretat

apocament

Sinònims

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

Traduccions

timidité

çekinme

retraimento

kaçınma

utangaçlık

Zurückhaltung

mahcubiyet

Schüchternheit

çekingenlik

Reserve

Einbuße

Niederlage

έλλειψη αυτοπεποίθησης

αιδημοσύνη

Befangenheit

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈdɪfɪdəns/

Etimologia (Anglès)

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.