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n. The property of being coy.

n. The quality of being coy; feigned o� bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve.

n. The quality of being coy; shyness; modest reserve; bashfulness; unwillingness to become familiar.

n. Synonyms Diffidence, Shyness (see bashfulness), reserve, demureness.

n. the affectation of being demure in a provocative way

"I call it folly, not because I am adverse to feminine reserve, not because I am prone to quarrel even with what I call coyness; but because I know his nature so well, and feel that he would not bear rebuffs of which many another man would think nothing; that he would not bring himself to ask again, perhaps even for a seventh time, as they might do."

affectedness   

bashfulness    shyness    reserve    shrinking    modesty   

bashfulness    diffidence    prudery    hesitancy    timidity