Antonym: assurance, confidence. Similar words: diffident, diffidently, confidence, self-confidence, difference, indifference, make a difference, incidence. Meaning: ['dɪfɪdəns] 
n. lack of self-confidence.
n. lack of self-confidence. 
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1, He entered the room with a certain diffidence.
2, She overcame her natural diffidence and spoke with great frankness.
3, They had misgivings about Mr Major's diffidence, felt he was not carrying the battle to the strongly challenging enemy.
4, He reflects on his own diffidence and awkwardness in large groups.
5, Growing older, learning to conquer his diffidence as he wins fame and fortune, still Hornblower does not change.
6, He has diffidence in expressing his opinions.
7, What women mistake as thoughtlessness is often just diffidence.
8, We set his silence down diffidence.
9, We set his silence down to his diffidence.
10, Such diffidence calmed rather than alerted us.
11, Diffidence is the poison of friendshellop.
12, Such diffidence dates back a long time.
13, As a result Heath rarely exhibited Nixon's crippling diffidence.
14, Diffidence is the poison of friendship.
15, A diffidence,(http://sentencedict.com/diffidence.html) perhaps too just.
16, Mr. Cruncher, with some diffidence, explained himself as meaning'Old Nick's.'
17, He failed through diffidence.
18, It is with diffidence and hesitation that I approach this work.
19, For I am a little diffidence, I want to enjoy the hankered feeling.
20, The region diffidence of the rural economy development is remarkable, and always expanding.
21, Remember the dictum our professor taught us, diffidence leads to envy which gives rise to spite.
22, In Beijing, pride jostles with insecurity diffidence sits alongside brisk self - confidence .
23, Painfully she wallows down on her knees and without diffidence soaps and rinses me all over.
24, If I have any suggestions, I shall put them with garrulous hesitation and a suitable air of diffidence.
25, Mr Pen, besides other drawbacks, chose to entertain an extreme diffidence about himself.
26, This lady received the visitors with a mixture of ceremony and diffidence quite English.
27, The outer crust of her life, all of her natural diffidence and reserve, was torn away.
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