Coyness

Definition: Coyness

Coyness

Noun

1. The affectation of being demure in a provocative way.

Date "coyness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonym: Coyness

Synonym: demureness (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Coyness

English words defined with "coyness": Accismus ♦ Reserve air. (references)

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	Coyness. Credit: Library of Congress.
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"Coyness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Coyness" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	22	74,468

Language		Translations for "coyness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		扭捏作态. (various references)

German		Schüchternheit (bashfulness, diffidence, sheepishness, shyness, timidity, timidness). (various references)

Greek		συστολή (bashfulness, constraint, contraction, shrinkage, shyness, systole). (various references)

Hungarian		tartózkodás (abidance, abstention, abstinence, aloofness, being, constraint, discretion, dwell, dwelling, residence, residency, restraint, reticence, self-restraint, shyness, sojourn, standoff, stay, staying, stopover), félénkség (bashfulness, diffidence, faintheartedness, pusillanimity, shamefacedness, shyness, timidity, timidness, timorousness). (various references)

Korean		수줍음 (sheepishness, shyness). (various references)

Manx		nearid. (various references)

Pig Latin		oynesscay

Romanian		cochetãrie (affectation, archness, coquetry, demureness, elegance, smartness, spruceness, tidiness), timiditate (bashfulness, diffidence, hesitation, shyness, timidity, timorousness), sfialã (bashfulness, shyness, timidity). (various references)

Turkish		utangaçlık (bashfulness, pudency, shyness, timidity, timidness), naz (affectation, coquetry, coquettish), çekingenlik (bashfulness, demureness, diffidence, inhibition, reserve, shyness, timidity, timidness). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính xấu hổ, tính rụt rè, tính e lệ tính hay l� m duyên l� m dáng, tính bẽn lẽn (demureness, pudency, shamefacedness, shyness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "coyness": coynesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Coyness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caynazzo, choynese, cloyness, cogness, conass, coonass, cynnes, Foynes, kineses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "coyness" (pronounced 'Coy"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-n-o-s-s-y"
	-1 letter: coneys, coseys, scones.
	-2 letters: cones, coney, coses, cosey, noses, nosey, onces, scone, snyes, sones, sonsy, syces, syncs.
	-3 letters: cess, cone, cons, cony, coss, cosy, coys, eons, ness, noes, nose, nosy, once, ones, oses, oyes, secs, snye, sone, sons, soys, syce, sync, syne, yens.
	-4 letters: con, cos, coy, ens, eon, ess, nos, oes, one, ons.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-n-o-s-s-y"
	+1 letter: cyanoses, ecdysons, pycnoses, syncopes.
	+2 letters: coynesses, cynosures, cytosines, ecdysones, hyoscines.
	+3 letters: postsynced, syncopates.
	+4 letters: cockneyisms, confessedly, consistency, countlessly, cytokineses, cytokinesis, endocytoses, endocytosis, isocyanates, myoclonuses, nematocysts, nonsystemic, phenocrysts, pinocytoses, synchromesh, synchronies, synchronise, synecdoches.
	+5 letters: asynchronies, candyflosses, censoriously, cherrystones, cockeyedness, concessively, consensually, consistently, conveyorises, countryseats, countrysides, cryosurgeons, cyanogeneses, cyanogenesis, cyclogeneses, cyclogenesis, cycloserines, geosynclines, glycogeneses, glycogenesis, honeysuckles, hyoscyamines, incestuously, intercessory, mesocyclones, nonnecessity, recessionary, sycophancies, synchronised, synchronises, synchronizes, synchroscope, synecologies.
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Coyness

Definition: Coyness

Coyness

Noun

Synonym: Coyness

Crosswords: Coyness

Photo Album: Coyness

Usage Frequency: Coyness

Modern Translation: Coyness

Chinese

German

Greek

Hungarian

Korean

Manx

Pig Latin

Romanian

Turkish

Vietnamese

Derivations & Misspellings: Coyness

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Coyness"

Anagrams: Coyness

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