noun. The state or quality of being moderate in the estimation of one's own abilities, accomplishments, or value.

noun. Reserve or propriety in speech, dress, or behavior.

noun. The state of being unostentatious or moderate in size, quantity, or range.

noun. The quality of being modest; moderation; freedom from exaggeration or excess.

noun. Retiring disposition or demeanor; disinclination to presumption, ostentation, or self-assertion; unobtrusiveness; reserve proceeding from absence of over-confidence or self-esteem.

noun. Decorous feeling or behavior; purity or delicacy of thought or manner; reserve proceeding from pure or chaste character.

noun. Synonyms Diffidence, Shyness, etc. See bashfulness.

noun. The hare's-ear or thorough-wax, Bupleurum rotundifolium.

noun. The bladder-ketmia or flower-of-an-hour, Hibiscus Trionum.

To lose from modesty: with away.

noun. 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.

noun. Natural delicacy or shame regarding personal charms and the sexual relation; purity of thought and manners; due regard for propriety in speech or action.

noun. a narrow piece of lace worn by women over the bosom.

noun. The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.

noun. Moderate behaviour; reserve.

noun. Pudency, prudish avoidance of sexual explicitness.

noun. freedom from vanity or conceit

noun. formality and propriety of manner

"It is high time for _true_ modesty to take the place of that _false modesty_ which has driven virtue, like an exile, out of the land, and peopled it largely with"

boastfulness  boldness  extravagance  immodesty  impudence  

modestly  

false modesty  

decency  delicacy  firmness  frankness  generosity  

aloofness  altruism  backwardness  bashfulness  bashfulness