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diffidence
Synonyms and Antonyms of diffidence
- He met the girl's gaze with awkward diffidence.
bashfulness, mousiness, quietness, reserve, reservedness, retiringness, sheepishness, shyness, timidity, timidness
acquiescence, compliance, deference, passivity, resignedness, submission, submissiveness
faintheartedness, fearfulness, timorousness
carefulness, cautiousness, wariness
feebleness, softness, weakness
cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, gutlessness, poltroonery, pusillanimity, spinelessness
demureness, down-to-earthness, humbleness, humility, lowliness, meekness, modesty
attitude, audaciousness, boldness, brashness, brassiness, cheek, cheekiness, cockiness, cocksureness, forwardness, overconfidence, swagger, swash, temerity
impertinence, impudence, insolence, nerve, sauciness
boastfulness, chest-thumping, self-applause, self-assumption, self-centeredness, self-complacency, self-conceit, self-glorification, self-importance, self-opinion, self-partiality, self-satisfaction, vaingloriousness, vanity
flamboyance, ostentation, ostentatiousness, showiness
arrogance, 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
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