Word Meanings - COYNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being coy; feigned o When the kind nymph would coyness feign, And hides but to be found again. Dryden. Syn. -- Reserve; shrinking; shyness; backwardness; modesty; bashfulness.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COYNESS)

• Reserve
• Reservation
• retention
• limitation
• withholding
• appropriation
• coyness
• shyness
• backwardness
• secretiveness
• taciturnity
• modesty
• restraint
• constraint

Related words: (words related to COYNESS)

• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• APPROPRIATION
  1. The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object. 2.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• COYNESS
  The quality of being coy; feigned o When the kind nymph would coyness feign, And hides but to be found again. Dryden. Syn. -- Reserve; shrinking; shyness; backwardness; modesty; bashfulness.
• MODESTY
  1. The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit. 2. Natural delicacy
• SHYNESS
  The quality or state of being shy. Frequency in heavenly contemplation is particularly important to prevent a shyness bewtween God and thy soul. Baxter. Syn. -- Bashfulness; reserve; coyness; timidity; diffidence. See Bashfulness.
• WITHHOLD
  1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him. Spenser. 2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. Forbid who will, none shall
• WITHHOLDMENT
  The act of withholding.
• RESERVATION
  1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak. 2. Something withheld, either not expressed
• LIMITATION
  1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible
• CONSTRAINT
  The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity. Long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Not by constraint, but bDryden. Syn. -- Compulsion;
• WITHHOLDER
  One who withholds.
• TACITURNITY
  Habilual silence, or reserve in speaking. The cause of Addison's taciturnity was a natural diffidence in the company of strangers. V. Knox. The taciturnity and the short answers which gave so much offense. Macaulay.
• RETENTION
  The right of withholding a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien. Erskine. Craig. Retention cyst , a cyst produced by obstruction of a duct leading from a secreting organ
• RESERVEE
  One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor.
• RESTRAINT
  1. The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental. No man was altogether above the restrains of law, and no man altogether below
• BACKWARDNESS
  The state of being backward.
• RESERVER
  One who reserves.
• RESERVE CITY
  In the national banking system of the United States, any of certain cities in which the national banks are required (U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5191) to keep a larger reserve than the minimum required of all other banks. The banks in certain of the
• RESERVED
  1. Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater. 2. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank. To
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• ILLIMITATION
  State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.
• UNRESTRAINT
  Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.
• IRRETENTION
  Want of retaining power; forgetfulness. De Quincey.
• UNRESERVED
  Not reserved; not kept back; not withheld in part; unrestrained. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ness, n.
• IMMODESTY
  Want of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency. "A piece of immodesty." Pope.
• PRESERVER
  1. One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another. Shak. 2. One who makes preserves of fruit. Game preserver. See under Game.
• PRESERVATION
  The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation. Give us particulars of thy