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Definition of Shy person
1. Noun. Someone who shrinks from familiarity with others.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shy Person
Literary usage of Shy person
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution by Sydney Smith (1856)
"But a shy person feels more shame, than it is graceful, or proper, he should
feel; generally, either from ignorance or pride. A young man, in making his ..."
2. Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution by Sydney Smith, Royal Institution of Great Britain (1849)
"But a shy person feels more shame, than it is graceful, or proper, he should
feel; generally, either from ignorance or pride. A young man, in making his ..."
3. Self-consciousness in Public: How to Control Your Emotions, the Problem and by Lauron William De Laurence (1916)
"It is not so much a fear of others as a fear of self, for the shy person is often a
... The shy person shrinks from doing anything in a public capacity, ..."
4. Putnam's Magazine (1908)
"For the shy person, who is desperately anxious to bear a sympathetic part, ...
The shy person has learned a certain wisdom ; he becomes aware how easily he ..."
5. Putnam's & the Reader (1908)
"For the shy person, who is desperately anxious to bear a sympathetic part, ...
The shy person has learned a certain wisdom; he becomes aware how easily he ..."
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