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• n  lack of self-confidence

• For by humility I do not mean a neurotic self-contempt or self-distrust, though there are forms of Christian, as of nonChristian, neurosis.
• Timidity, self-distrust and conformity are pathetically evident among the graduates of American teacher-training colleges .
• His everlasting self-distrust, compensatory self-assertion, slowness and difficulty with his medium they freely concede.

• diffidence
• self-doubt

• confidence