modesty
noun
1 modesty
Freedom from vanity or conceit.
synonym: modestness.
Roget 483:
underestimation;
depreciation
etc.
(detraction)
934;
pessimism,
pessimist;
undervaluing
etc.
v.;
modesty
etc.
881.
Roget 960:
purity;
decency,
decorum,
delicacy;
continence,
chastity,
honesty,
virtue,
modesty,
shame;
pudicity†,
pucelage†,
virginity.
vestal,
virgin,
Joseph,
Hippolytus;
Lucretia,
Diana;
prude.
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Roget 879:
humility,
humbleness;
meekness,
lowness;
lowliness,
lowlihood†;
abasement,
self-abasement;
submission
etc.
725;
resignation.
condescension;
affability
etc.
(courtesy)
894.
modesty
etc.
881;
verecundity†,
blush,
suffusion,
confusion;
sense of shame,
sense of disgrace;
humiliation,
mortification;
let down,
set down.
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Dutch: bescheidenheid, ingetogenheid
Polish: skromność
2 modesty
Moby thesaurus: aloofness, altruism, backwardness, bashfulness, blankness, boggle, boggling, chilliness, coldness, commitment, compunction, consecration, constraint, coolness, decency, decorousness, decorum, dedication, delicacy, demur, demurral, detachment, devotion, diffidence, discreetness, discretion, disinterest, disinterestedness, distance, dullness, elegance, expressionlessness, fairishness, falter, faltering, frigidity, frostiness, guardedness, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, homeliness, humbleness, humility, iciness, impassiveness, impassivity, impersonality, inaccessibility, indifference, ingloriousness, innocuousness, introversion, lackluster, lowlihood, lowliness, meanness, mediocreness, mediocrity, meekness, middlingness, moderateness, modestness, objection, passableness, pause, plainness, poorness, propriety, protest, pudency, pudicity, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmishness, recoil, remoteness, repression, reserve, reservedness, respectability, restraint, reticence, reticency, retirement, sacrifice, scruple, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, seemliness, self-abasement, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-devotion, self-effacement, self-forgetfulness, self-immolation, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness, self-renouncement, self-sacrifice, self-subjection, selflessness, shame, shrinking, shyness, simpleness, smallness, standoffishness, stickling, subduedness, submissiveness, suppression, teachableness, tediousness, tolerableness, unacquisitiveness, unaffability, unapproachability, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, unexpansiveness, unimportance, unpossessiveness, unpretentiousness, unselfishness, withdrawal, withdrawnness ... show more.
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