SHY  怕羞

ENDURING FEAR of POSSIBLE NEAR FUTURE SHAME.
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Hypernym
  • FEARBAD FEELING IN-RELATION-TO what one BELIEVES to be a DANGER which one is TRYING to AVOID.
    • FEELINGNATURAL REACTION IN one's MIND.
      • REACTCHANGE one's THINKING OR ACTING BECAUSE one is PERCEIVING something.
        • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2....
See also
  • FEELINGNATURAL REACTION IN one's MIND.
    Modern Chinese Criteria
    害臊

    害羞

    含羞

    怕羞

    靦腆

    腆嘿

    羞人

    羞澀

    羞怯

    嬌羞



    訕訕

    忸怩

    抹不開

    羞答答

    羞人答答

    羞羞答答

    難為情

    不好意思

    rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /

    • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

      SHY

      castus refers to chastity and purity as a natural quality of the soul.

      pudicus refers to the habitual moral sentiment of not wanting to be exposed to the gaze of others.

      pudens and pudor refer to the habitual sense of shame as inolving a sense of public honour resulting in a fear of exposure.

      pudibundus refers to the acute sense of shame when excited.

    • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

      PUDICITIA

    • Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Sprachinhaltsforschung. Teil II. Systematischer Teil. B. Ordnung nach Sinnbezirken (mit einem alphabetischen Begriffsschluessel): Der Mensch und seine Welt im Spiegel der Sprachforschung ( FRANKE 1989) p. 64A

      ZURUECKHALTUNG

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