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Diffident vs Shrinking - What's the difference?

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Diffident is a related term of shrinking.


As an adjective diffident

is (archaic): lacking confidence in others; distrustful.

As a verb shrinking is

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As a noun shrinking is

the act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away.

diffident

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic): Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.
  • Lacking confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve.
  • *
    • Having therefore—but hold, as we are diffident of our own abilities, let us here invite a superior power to our assistance.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VIII , passage=At an early point in these exchanges I had started to sidle to the door, and I now sidled through it, rather like a diffident crab on some sandy beach trying to avoid the attentions of a child with a spade.}}

    shrinking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away.