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  • 41shyness — Synonyms and related words: afraidness, bashfulness, boggle, boggling, compunction, confusion, coyness, demur, demureness, demurity, demurral, diffidence, embarrassment, falter, faltering, fearfulness, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, jumpiness …

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  • 42softness — Synonyms and related words: acceptance, adynamia, airiness, anemia, ascent, atony, blah feeling, bloodlessness, bubbliness, buoyancy, cachexia, cachexy, carelessness, chicken liveredness, chickenheartedness, clemency, clementness, commodiousness …

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  • 43stage fright — Synonyms and related words: afraidness, agitation, apprehensiveness, attack of nerves, bashfulness, buck fever, case of nerves, confusion, coyness, demureness, demurity, diffidence, embarrassment, excessive irritability, fear, fearfulness,… …

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  • 44stammering — Synonyms and related words: balbutient, balbuties, bashful, bashfulness, battology, confused, confusion, conscious, coy, coyness, demure, demureness, demurity, dysphemia, embarrassment, expletive, faltering, filling, halting, hesitating,… …

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  • 45timidity — Synonyms and related words: afraidness, bashfulness, chicken liveredness, chickenheartedness, confusion, cowardice, cowardliness, coyness, demureness, demurity, diffidence, embarrassment, faintheart, faintheartedness, fear, fearfulness,… …

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  • 46weakness — Synonyms and related words: Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, a thing for, abulia, accessibility, admiration, adoration, affection, affinity, agape, airiness, airy texture, amenableness, anemia, aptitude, aptness, ardency, ardor, area,… …

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  • 47indecision — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. irresolution, hesitation, uncertainty, vacillation, shillyshally. See doubt. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. hesitation, vacillation, irresolution; see doubt 2 , uncertainty 1 . III (Roget s Thesaurus II)… …

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  • 48pause — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. cessation, rest, hesitation, inactivity; lull, stop, discontinuance, suspension. v. i. desist, halt, stop, cease, break. See doubt, repose. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A break] Syn. intermission,… …

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  • 49shilly-shally — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. vacillate, waver; dawdle, loiter. See uncertainty, inactivity. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. falter, waver, fluctuate; see hesitate , pause . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. hesitate, wave, vacillate,… …

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  • 50vacillation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. uncertainty; fluctuation; hesitation, faltering, shillyshallying. See doubt, oscillation, changeableness. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Swaying] Syn. vibration, swing, fluctuation; see sway 1 , wave 2 . 2.… …

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