Reservation vs Modesty - What's the difference?
reservation | modesty |
The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
Something that is withheld or kept back.
A limiting qualification (often used in the plural).
(US) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian (reserve)).
An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
(UK) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway.
(India) The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
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.
As nouns the difference between reservation and modesty
is that reservation is the act of reserving, withholding or keeping back while modesty is the quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.reservation
English
Noun
(en noun)- I have reservations about your intentions.