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shyness

/ˈʃaɪnəs/ sustantivo C2

En español: timidez

  1. The quality of being shy; a fear of social interactions. (uncountable) · Her shyness kept her from asking him to the prom.

Plural shynesses

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Anne, stepping back to her seat, blushing with shyness and delight, found her hand vigorously clasped and shaken by the stout lady in pink silk.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 284 · C1
On the stairs were a troop of little boys and girls, whose eagerness for their cousin’s appearance would not allow them to wait in the drawing-room, and whose shyness, as they had not seen her for a twelvemonth, prevented their coming lower.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 177 · B2
Georgiana’s reception of them was very civil, but attended with all that embarrassment which, though proceeding from shyness and the fear of doing wrong, would easily give to those who felt themselves inferior the belief of her being proud and reserved.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 300 · B2

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