not having much confidence in yourself; not wanting to talk about yourself synonym shy a diffident manner/smile He was modest and diffident about his own success.
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NAmE//ˈdɪfədəns//
noun [uncountable] She overcame her natural diffidence and spoke with great frankness. adverbSee diffident in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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