Synonyms and related words :
afraidness, bashfulness, boggle, boggling, compunction, confusion, coyness, demur, demureness, demurity, demurral, diffidence, embarrassment, falter, faltering, fearfulness, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, jumpiness, modesty, mousiness, objection, pause, protest, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmishness, recoil, scruple, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, self-consciousness, shamefacedness, shamefastness, shrinking, shrinkingness, skittishness, stage fright, stagefright, stammering, startlishness, stickling, timidity, timidness, timorousness