diffidence
Senso (Inglese)
- (countable, uncountable) The state of being diffident, timid or shy; reticence or self-effacement.
- (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Mistrust, distrust, lack of confidence in someone or something.
Concetti
sinonimi
nervous
closing price
feeling constraint
fear of troubling someone
want of confidence
Traduzioni
timidité
kaçınma çekingenlik mahcubiyet
Zurückhaltung utangaçlık
retraimento
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/ˈdɪfɪdəns/
Etimologia (Inglese)
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.
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