Associations to the word «Bashfulness»

Wiktionary

BASHFULNESS, noun. The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.

Dictionary definition

BASHFULNESS, noun. Feeling embarrassed due to modesty.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne