shyness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
shyness
    n 1: a feeling of fear of embarrassment
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Shyness \Shy"ness\, n.
   The quality or state of being shy. [Written also {shiness}.]
   [1913 Webster]

         Frequency in heavenly contemplation is particularly
         important to prevent a shyness bewtween God and thy
         soul.                                    --Baxter.
   [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Bashfulness; reserve; coyness; timidity; diffidence. See
        {Bashfulness}.
        [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "shyness":
      afraidness, bashfulness, boggle, boggling, compunction, confusion,
      coyness, demur, demureness, demurity, demurral, diffidence,
      embarrassment, falter, faltering, fearfulness, hesitance,
      hesitancy, hesitation, jumpiness, modesty, mousiness, objection,
      pause, protest, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmishness, recoil,
      scruple, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, self-consciousness,
      shamefacedness, shamefastness, shrinking, shrinkingness,
      skittishness, stage fright, stagefright, stammering, startlishness,
      stickling, timidity, timidness, timorousness
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