Etymology

shyness

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Today it means: The quality of being shy; a fear of social interactions. Full definition →

English shy ← Middle English shy
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The story

  1. Middle Englishshy
  2. Englishshy
  3. English todayshyness

From shy + -ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.