diffidence
Meaning
- (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.
Synonyms
nervous
closing price
feeling constraint
fear of troubling someone
want of confidence
Translations
timidité
kaçınma çekingenlik mahcubiyet
Zurückhaltung utangaçlık
retraimento
encongimentPronounced as (IPA)
/ˈdɪfɪdəns/
Etymology
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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