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diffidencenoun the quality or state of lacking confidence or assertivenessHe met the girl's gaze with awkward diffidence. bashfulness, mousiness, quietness, reserve, reservedness, retiringness, sheepishness, shyness, timidity, timidnessacquiescence, compliance, deference, passivity, resignedness, submission, submissivenessfaintheartedness, fearfulness, timorousnesscarefulness, cautiousness, warinessfeebleness, softness, weaknesscowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, gutlessness, poltroonery, pusillanimity, spinelessnessdemureness, down-to-earthness, humbleness, humility, lowliness, meekness, modesty aggressiveness, assertivenessattitude, audaciousness, boldness, brashness, brassiness, cheek, cheekiness, cockiness, cocksureness, forwardness, overconfidence, swagger, swash, temerityimpertinence, impudence, insolence, nerve, saucinessboastfulness, chest-thumping, self-applause, self-assumption, self-centeredness, self-complacency, self-conceit, self-glorification, self-importance, self-opinion, self-partiality, self-satisfaction, vaingloriousness, vanitycondescension, disdain, scornflamboyance, ostentation, ostentatiousness, showinessarrogance, assumption, bumptiousness, conceit, egoism, egotism, haughtiness, hauteur, huffiness, imperiousness, loftiness, lordliness, peremptoriness, pomposity, pompousness, presumptuousness, pretense(or pretence), pretension, pretentiousness, pride, pridefulness, superciliousness, superiority, toploftiness in the 15th century |