self-distrust
- 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.