Usually means: Embarrassment shown by awkward shyness.
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  1. sheepishness: Merriam-Webster
  2. sheepishness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sheepishness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sheepishness: Vocabulary.com
  5. sheepishness: Wordnik
  6. sheepishness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sheepishness: Wiktionary
  8. sheepishness: Dictionary.com
  9. sheepishness: Rhymezone
  10. sheepishness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. sheepishness: FreeDictionary.org
  12. sheepishness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. sheepishness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The quality or property of being sheepish; shyness; bashfulness.

Similar:
shamefacedness, sheepiness, sheepness, bashfulness, sheepdom, timidness, shiness, shyness, shirtiness, shrewishness, more...

Opposite:
confidence, assertiveness, boldness

Types:
chagrin, embarrassment, humiliation, mortification, more...

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Similar:
shamefacedness, sheepiness, sheepness, bashfulness, sheepdom, timidness, shiness, shyness, shirtiness, shrewishness, more...

Opposite:
confidence, assertiveness, boldness

Types:
chagrin, embarrassment, humiliation, mortification, more...



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