What does coyness mean?
Coyness means The property of being coy..
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/kɔɪnɛs/ · noun
The property of being coy..
Her coyneſs was conquered by aſſiduity, and at laſt ſhe conſented to reſign the treaſure of her charms to my paſſion.
Former Harvard professor and communist Noel Ignatiev, who co-founded the New Abolitionist Society and founded a journal called Race Traitor, named after a book he coauthored in the mid-1990s, famously advocated for the complete abolition of the white race […] Note a certain coyness about whether this destruction refers to only a white race category or to all white-skinned people.
Use coyness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Coyness means The property of being coy..
Common synonyms include demureness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Her coyneſs was conquered by aſſiduity, and at laſt ſhe conſented to reſign the treaſure of her charms to my paſſion.
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