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Shrinking vs Modesty - What's the difference?

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Shrinking is a related term of modesty.


As nouns the difference between shrinking and modesty

is that shrinking is the act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away while modesty is the quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.

As a verb shrinking

is .

shrinking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

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

    • 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.
  • *
  • *: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