modesty
English
Noun
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wikipedia modesty)
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en-noun)
The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
Moderate behaviour; reserve.
(lb) Pudency, prudish avoidance of sexual explicitness.
Derived terms
* false modesty
Related terms
* modestly
Antonyms
* immodesty
* extravagance
* impudence
extravegancy
Not English
Extravegancy has no English definition. It may be misspelled.
English words similar to 'extravegancy':
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externality,
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ecohydrology,
extralegally,
extremality,
equatorially,
estrogenicity,
extramurally,
extrabodily,
extraliterary,
exteriourly,
extirpatory,
extralimitary,
exteriority,
extrordinary,
extraaxillary,
ectrodactyly