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coyness
" Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime."
Andrew Marvell

Meaning of "coyness" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF COYNESS

ˈkɔɪnɪs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COYNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Coyness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COYNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of coyness in the English dictionary

The definition of coyness in the dictionary is affected demureness. Other definition of coyness is unwillingness to be frank.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COYNESS

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COYNESS

coxswain · coxy · coy · Coy. · coydog · coyish · coyishly · coyishness · coyly · coyote · coyotillo · Coypel · coypu · coz · coze · cozen · cozenage · cozener · cozey

WORDS THAT END LIKE COYNESS

awayness · business · busyness · cageyness · dailyness · dopeyness · everydayness · farawayness · gayness · glueyness · gooeyness · greyness · hokeyness · homeyness · mateyness · sameyness · slyness · spryness · uppityness · vaginal dryness · wryness

Synonyms and antonyms of coyness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COYNESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «coyness» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «coyness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COYNESS

Find out the translation of coyness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of coyness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «coyness» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

羞怯
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

timidez
570 millions of speakers
en

English

coyness
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

coyness
380 millions of speakers
ar

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خجل
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

скромность
278 millions of speakers
pt

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coyness
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

ব্রীড়া
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

coquetterie
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Coyness
190 millions of speakers
de

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Ziererei
180 millions of speakers
ja

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coyness
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

수줍음
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Coyness
85 millions of speakers
vi

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coyness
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

coyness
75 millions of speakers
mr

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आळशीपणा
75 millions of speakers
tr

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naz
70 millions of speakers
it

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timidezza
65 millions of speakers
pl

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nieśmiałość
50 millions of speakers
uk

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скромність
40 millions of speakers
ro

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sfială
30 millions of speakers
el

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συστολή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

coyness
14 millions of speakers
sv

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coyness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

coyness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of coyness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COYNESS»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about coyness

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QUOTES WITH «COYNESS»

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Andrew Marvell
Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COYNESS»

Discover the use of coyness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to coyness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy: Women's Desire, ...
In contexts ranging from reaffirmations of church and king to emerging interests in liberty and novelty, these plays consistently reveal women caught in an ironic and nearly intractable convergence of objectification and culpability that ...
Peggy Thompson, 2012
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How Infants Know Minds
of such behaviour in the first year of life? First, let's take a quick look at what embarrassment or coyness or positive shyness might look like. Identifying Embarrassment and Coyness Three decades ago Beulah Amsterdam published a number ...
Vasudevi Reddy, 2008
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Leaving Parnassus: The Lyric Subject in Verlaine and Rimbaud
Certainly, both possibilities are present in this ambiguity; in the former, the members of the couple ask each other about the ancient coyness of the world they are leaving behind, looking for forgiveness as they look ahead. In the latter, several ...
Seth Adam Whidden, 2007
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Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries
Since the poet had begun the poem by making the reader her confidential friend —who is admitted where even the family is refused entrance, behind the locked Door—this sudden coyness repudiates the original apparently confessional ...
Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler, 2010
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Foundations for self-awareness: an exploration through autism
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: COYNESS REVISITED I It is appropriate to begin by considering how the children responded to the Musical Alien control condition, in which the actions of Alien were not of a kind to provoke self-consciousness, ...
R. Peter Hobson, Gayathri Chidambi, U. Müller, 2006
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Outing Goethe & His Age
At the mention of virginal coyness, Egmont's facade collapses — not through Clarchen's words, but in her gestures: she averts her gaze shyly, takes his hand, and leans on him. Egmont immediately says that he "understands" the pantomime.
Alice A. Kuzniar, 1996
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Epistolae Ho-Elianae: Familiar Letters Domestic and Foreign; ...
I confess Coyness becomes some Beauties, if handsomely acted 3 a Frown up6n some Faces penetrates more, and makes deeper Impression than the Fawning and soft Glances of a mincing Smile : Yet if this Coyness and these Frowns ...
James Howell, 1754
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Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon
If there is a coyness in the pose of the boy, it is matched by the inarticulate unknowingness of the virtual spectator, the "you" whom this painting hails. Caravaggio's early paintings do not structure their reception through the mJ2 CHAPTER ...
Graham L. Hammill, 2000
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Art: Sublimation Or Symptom
Because that score is closed, you are faced with a conundrum. To understand oneself as the addressee of this painting's solicitation is to confront an inarticulateness that is directly proportional to the coyness of the young boy's pose. If there is ...
Parveen Adams, 2003
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The Influence of Common Residence on the Unilateral ...
"Ceremonial coyness" is best explained by the reluctance one feels at leaving a familiar home to take up residence in a strange one, especially if one's new family is to be merged with that of the parents-in-law. be readily made between simple ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COYNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term coyness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Gov. John Kasich says it's too early to worry about GOP debates
The coyness is as much about following rules as it is about cracking wise. Kasich will have 15 days to file the necessary paperwork with the ... «Columbus Dispatch, Jul 15»
2
Why Is John Abraham Refusing To Talk About Priya Runchal?
At the trailer launch of his much awaited film, Welcome Back, what surprised everyone was John's coyness about any question that pertained to ... «Masala.com, Jul 15»
3
Jess Ribeiro - Kill ltYourself
She shares a deadpan singing style with Courtney Barnett but it contains darker shades of sensuality, folksiness and coyness with ethereal ... «FasterLouder, Jul 15»
4
How Digitization is Redefining Our Business: Ashok Vaswani, Barclays
Frankly speaking, there is a certain degree of coyness, fear and apprehension among people, both young and old that restrains them from ... «ChannelWorld.in, Jul 15»
5
This crazy Snow White fan theory will change the way you see …
She seems afraid when she first sees him, and runs away. Coyness, or is it because he represents a brush with death by drowning in the well? «Cosmopolitan UK, Jun 15»
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Hot Take #14: Janet Jackson, The Chemical Brothers, Carly Rae …
I wish the melody was catchier, and Carly Rae's twee-heeing can be downright oppressive, plus her coyness attracts some really creepy ... «Pretty Much Amazing, Jun 15»
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David Gonski: Australia's 'chairman of everything' talks life, big …
Perhaps a cynic would wonder if such coyness is actually a ploy intrinsic to his longevity in the highest echelons of Australian commerce. «ABC Online, Jun 15»
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Florida Supercon 2015: The force is strong with this one
... in the J.J. Abrams-directed "Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens." Answer: "I have no idea," Williams says, with just a trace of coyness. «SouthFlorida.com, Jun 15»
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BWW Reviews: American Ballet Theatre's 'Swan Lake' Still Special
Murphy's coyness as Odette is enchanting (rather than annoying, as it sometimes reads) because she demonstrates that Odette has only ... «Broadway World, Jun 15»
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Column: Narendra Modi can run the gauntlet that Rajiv Gandhi picked
He had recently shed India's coyness with America, working openly with President Obama through two high profile and warm engagements. «Financial Express, Jun 15»
REFERENCE
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