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.
The only correction for shyness is to summon up your courage and do it.
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?
Like the GOP, they exhibit no shyness about raising and spending record amounts of cash to ensure victory.
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.