Hypertext Webster Gateway: "coyness"
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) 1.7 (wn)
coyness
n : the affectation of being demure in a provocative way [syn: {demureness}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.