shamefacedness
51stage fright — Synonyms and related words: afraidness, agitation, apprehensiveness, attack of nerves, bashfulness, buck fever, case of nerves, confusion, coyness, demureness, demurity, diffidence, embarrassment, excessive irritability, fear, fearfulness,… …
52stammering — Synonyms and related words: balbutient, balbuties, bashful, bashfulness, battology, confused, confusion, conscious, coy, coyness, demure, demureness, demurity, dysphemia, embarrassment, expletive, faltering, filling, halting, hesitating,… …
53timidity — Synonyms and related words: afraidness, bashfulness, chicken liveredness, chickenheartedness, confusion, cowardice, cowardliness, coyness, demureness, demurity, diffidence, embarrassment, faintheart, faintheartedness, fear, fearfulness,… …
54embarrassment — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The condition of being embarrassed] Syn. confusion, chagrin, mortification, discomfiture, shame, humiliation, abashment, discomposure, discomfort, disconcertment, disconcertion, bashfulness, self consciousness, shyness,… …
55shamefaced — adjective showing shame. Derivatives shamefacedly adverb shamefacedness noun Origin C16 (in the sense modest, shy ): alt. of archaic shamefast, by assoc. with face …
56mauvaise honte — [Fr.] Bashfulness, false modesty, shamefacedness …
57timidity — n. 1. Timorousness, fearfulness, skittishness, shyness, cowardice, pusillanimity, want of courage, timidness. 2. Diffidence, bashfulness, coyness, sheepishness, shamefacedness …
58embarrassment — noun 1) he was scarlet with embarrassment Syn: mortification, humiliation, shame, shamefacedness, chagrin, awkwardness, self consciousness, sheepishness, discomfort, discomfiture, discomposure, agitation, distress; shyness, bashfulness 2) …
59modesty — n 1. self effacement, humbleness, humility, unobtrusiveness, unpretentiousness, unostenta tiousness, unassumingness, unboastfulness, unambi tiousness; reticence, reticency, constraint, subduedness; reserve, retirement, retiring disposition,… …
60penitence — n contrition, Theol. imperfect contrition, attrition, repentance, acknowledgment; compunction, regret, regretfulness, regrets, remorse, re morsefulness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, sadness, grief, sorriness; sackcloth and ashes, breast beating; self… …
