Synonyms and related words :
bashful, bashfulness, boggle, boggling, cautious, compunction, demur, demurral, demurring, diffidence, diffident, falter, faltering, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitant, hesitating, hesitation, jibbing, modest, modesty, objection, pause, protest, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmish, qualmishness, recoil, scruple, scrupling, scrupulosity, scrupulous, scrupulousness, shilly-shallying, shrinking, shy, shyness, squeamish, sticking, straining, tentative, timid