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Definitions: Demureness |
DemurenessNoun1. The trait of behaving with reserve and decorum. 2. The affectation of being demure in a provocative way. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "demureness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references) |
Synonym: DemurenessSynonym: coyness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affectation | Stiffness, formality, buckram; prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism; mauvais honte, false shame. |
Dejection | Demureness; Adjective: gravity, solemnity; long face, grave face. |
Modesty | Reserve, constraint; demureness; Adjective: " blushing honors ". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Demureness |
| English words defined with "demureness": Demurity. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "demureness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | seriozitet (gravity, reliability, seriousness, sobriety, solemnity), përmbajtje (check, constraint, content, contents, deterrence, equanimity, incorporation, matter, moderation, repression, reservation, reserve, restraint, reticence, substance, suppression, table of contents, temperance, tenor), modesti (diffidence, discreetness, modesty, unpretentiousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تواضع (behave modestly, humility, lowliness, meekness, modesty, unpretentiousness), تظاهر بالاحتشام. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скромност (decorum, diffidence, frugality, humility, modesty, pudency), сериозност (gravity, seriousness, solemnity), въздържаност (inaccessibility, moderation, self restraint, stay, temperance), престорена скромност. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ostýchavost (diffidence, self consciousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sagesse, air modeste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sittsamkeit (modesty, prudishness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σοβαροφάνεια. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "צט עות (hiding, modesty, primness), רצי ות מעוש". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kiegyensúlyozottság (balance, evenness, poise of mind), higgadtság (aplomb, calmness, composure, equilibrium, evenness, imperturbation, level-headedness, moderation, poise, presence of mind, sang-froid, self possession, self-command, self-possession, serenity, staidness, stoicism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | modestia (maidenliness, modesty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emurenessday seriozitate (earnest, earnestness, gravity, seriousness, sobriety), modestie afectatã (grundysim), cochetãrie (affectation, archness, coquetry, coyness, elegance, smartness, spruceness, tidiness), afectare (affectation, affecting, archness, dissimulation, fastidiousness, feint, foppery, foppishness, hypercriticism, mannerism, pose, preciosity, primness, sham). (various references) скромность (modesty, unpretentiousness), серьезность (earnest, gravity, seriousness), сдержанность (continence, discreetness, insularity, moderation, modesty, reservation, reserve, restraint, reticence, self restraint, self-restraint, temperance). (various references) stidljivost (bashfulness, pudency, timidity), povučenost (aloofness, remoteness, reticence). (various references) solemnidad (ceremoniousness, dignity, gravity, solemnity, solemnness), seriedad (graveness, gravity, responsibility, sedateness, seriousness, severity, sobriety, thoughtfulness, wholeheartedness), recato (retentiveness). (various references) ciddiyet (devoutness, earnestness, momentousness, sedateness, seriousness, severity, solemnity, staidness, starch), alçakgönüllülük (delicacy, honesty, humbleness, humility, lowliness, meekness, modesty, nobleness, pudency, simple-mindedness, submission, submissiveness), ölçülülük (continence, moderation, sang froid, sangfroid, temperance, temperateness), çekingenlik (bashfulness, coyness, diffidence, inhibition, reserve, shyness, timidity, timidness). (various references) стриманість (chastity, continence, control, distance, offishness, restraint, reticence, self restraint, temper), удавана сором'язливість, скромність (bashfulness, chastity, lowliness, modesty, simplicity), серйозність (earnest, gravity, sadness, seriousness, severity). (various references) vẻ từ tốn, vẻ nghiêm trang (dignity), vẻ kín đáo tính l m ra vẻ nghiêm trang, tính m u mè l m ra vẻ kín đáo, tính e lệ (pudency), tính bẽn lẽn (coyness, pudency, shamefacedness, shyness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "demureness": demurenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Demureness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Demokedes, demurrence. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "demureness" (pronounced 'De*mure"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 "d-e-e-e-m-n-r-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: demesnes, emenders, enureses, rudeness, seedsmen. | |
-3 letters: demesne, dueness, emender, emersed, endures, ensured, ensures, menders, needers, nemeses, redeems, redness, reedmen, remends, reseeds, resends, resumed, resumes, seeders, seedmen, seemers, senders, serenes, sneered, sunders, undress. | |
-4 letters: demure, demurs, denser, druses, duress, emeers, emends, emeses, enders, endues, endure, ensued, ensues, ensure, enured, enures, mender, mensed, menses, merdes. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-m-n-r-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: demurenesses. | |
+3 letters: underemphases. | |
+4 letters: admeasurements, dreamfulnesses, tremendousness, underestimates. | |
+5 letters: murderousnesses, underemphasizes, understatements. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 6D 75 72 65 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -- ..- .-. . -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01101101 01110101 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e m u r e n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 006D 0075 0072 0065 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38717987847180718585 |
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