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Modesty vs Bashfulness - What's the difference?

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Modesty is a related term of bashfulness.


As nouns the difference between modesty and bashfulness

is that modesty is the quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities while bashfulness is the quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.

modesty

English

Noun

(wikipedia modesty) (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

    bashfulness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , I, smiling in his face, took the letter, and immediately catching gently hold of his shirt sleeve, drew him towards me, blushing, and almost trembling; for surely his extreme bashfulness , and utter inexperience, call'd for, at least, all the advances to encourage him}}