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modesty

noun
  1. Lack of vanity or self-importance: humbleness, humility, lowliness, meekness. See attitude, big, self-love
  2. Reserve in speech, behavior, or dress: demureness, diffidence, reticence, self-effacement. See restraint
  3. The condition of being chaste: chastity, decency, innocence, purity, virginity, virtue, virtuousness. See good, restraint, sex
  4. Lack of ostentation or pretension: plainness, simpleness, simplicity, unassumingness, unostentatiousness, unpretentiousness. See plain

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