Words similar to shyness

Example sentences for: shyness

How can you use “shyness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The magazine alerts readers to another disease they didn't know they had: Social anxiety, formerly known as shyness, affects one in eight Americans.
We were all her friends, Maggie, and Bill, and Anne,And I, and the nice Boston Brahmin elderly manNamed Duncan, utterly friendly and benign.And of course it wasn't whether or not the worldWas benign but whether it looked at her too much.She wasn't 'painfully shy' but just the same I wouldn't be surprised if there had beenPainfulness in her shyness earlier on,Say at dancing school.
If your attraction to her is very strong it will overcome your shyness.
“Suicide won't oure shyness problems.”
So now that I am in America, how should I go about overcoming my shyness and nervousness about the possibility of having to kiss a girl, or even having to ask for a kiss?