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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Coyness \Coy"ness\, n.
The quality of being coy; feigned o? bashful unwillingness to
become familiar; reserve.
When the kind nymph would coyness feign, And hides but
to be found again --Dryden.
Syn: Reserve; shrinking; shyness; backwardness; modesty;
bashfulness.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
coyness
n : the affectation of being demure in a provocative way [syn: {demureness}]
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