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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
diffidence
n 1: lack of self-confidence [syn: diffidence, self-doubt,
self-distrust] [ant: confidence]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Diffidence \Dif"fi*dence\, n. [L. diffidentia.]
1. The state of being diffident; distrust; want of
confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of
others. [Archaic]
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That affliction grew heavy upon me, and weighed me
down even to a diffidence of God's mercy. --Donne.
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2. Distrust of one's self or one's own powers; lack of
self-reliance; modesty; modest reserve; bashfulness.
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It is good to speak on such questions with
diffidence. --Macaulay.
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An Englishman's habitual diffidence and awkwardness
of address. --W. Irving.
Syn: Humility; bashfulness; distrust; suspicion; doubt; fear;
timidity; apprehension; hesitation. See Humility, and
Bashfulness.
[1913 Webster]
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Thesaurus Results for diffidence:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Pyrrhonism, afraidness, apprehension, bashfulness, boggle, boggling, caution, cautiousness, compunction, demur, demurral, distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, falter, faltering, fearfulness, half-belief, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitating, hesitation, jumpiness, lack of self-confidence, lack of self-reliance, leeriness, misdoubt, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, modesty, objection, pause, protest, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmishness, question, recoil, scruple, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, self-depreciation, self-detraction, self-distrust, self-doubt, self-effacement, shadow of doubt, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shrinking, shrinkingness, shyness, skepticalness, skepticism, skittishness, stage fright, startlishness, stickling, suspicion, suspiciousness, tentativeness, timidity, timorousness, total skepticism, uncertainty, wariness, weak ego |
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