coyness

English

Etymology

From coy +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔɪnɛs/, /kɔɪnəs/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔɪnəs

Noun

coyness (usually uncountable, plural coynesses)

  1. The property of being coy.
    • 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 15:
      Her coyneſs was conquered by aſſiduity, and at laſt ſhe conſented to reſign the treaſure of her charms to my paſſion.
    • 2024 April 11, Wade Miller, “Policy Brief: The Great Replacement in Theory and Practice”, in Center for Renewing America‎[1], archived from the original on 4 August 2024:
      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.

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