shyness (n.)

• bashfulness
• compunction
• confusion
• coyness
• demur
• demureness
• demurral
• diffidence
• embarrassment
• falter
• faltering
• fearfulness
• hesitance
• hesitancy
• hesitation
• jumpiness
• modesty
• objection
• pause
• protest
• qualm
• recoil
• scruple
• scrupulousness
• self-consciousness
• shamefacedness
• shrinking
• skittishness
• timidity
• timidness
• timorousness