What's the difference between reclusiveness and shyness?

Reclusiveness


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was reclusive, I know that, and he was often given a hard time for it.
  • (2) Two decades after Donna Tartt soared to literary stardom with her debut The Secret History, the reclusive author is set to release her third novel this autumn.
  • (3) Unless psychic rehabilitation is undertaken in tandem with physical rehabilitation, a spinal cord-injured patient is likely to become an unhappy social recluse or denizen of a chronic care facility, rather than an independent productive member of his community.
  • (4) Christoph Schäublin said it had “triggered no feelings of triumph” that the of the Kunstmuseum Bern was to take on the artworks that were recently discovered in the home of German recluse Cornelius Gurlitt.
  • (5) In the first episode, 24-year-old Lauren, whose hirsutism (due to polycystic ovary syndrome) has rendered her a virtual recluse, sees her symptoms alleviated, and her confidence so improved that she puts on a swimsuit and visits her local pool.
  • (6) He is a man who eschews personal publicity and interviews, prompting him to be once described as Britain's answer to the late Howard Hughes, though his love of a night out proves he is no recluse.
  • (7) The French love Malick's artistry and mystery and he continued to play the recluse by not showing up for his press conference or red carpet, although I'm told he has been here, staying at the famed Colombe d'Or in St-Paul-de-Vence and that he did sneak in to watch at least some of his own film's premiere.
  • (8) Negotiations were revived after Dmitry Medvedev, the former president, who is now prime minister, met North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il, father of Kim Jong-un, in Siberia last summer on one of the reclusive leader's last foreign trips.
  • (9) The Trump administration has been pressing China aggressively to rein in its reclusive neighbour, warning all options are on the table if North Korea persists with its weapons programmes.
  • (10) The model is then subjected to the criticism that it is grotesque to ignore questions relating to the value of, for example, a productive mother over against an aged recluse, and to treat them as having equal rights to access.
  • (11) Unlike the brown recluse spider, wolf spider envenomation seldom causes cutaneous necrosis or systemic symptoms.
  • (12) The regime in Eritrea is, in short, a secretive, reclusive, authoritarian tyranny, which is ruthlessly controlled by president Afewerki.
  • (13) One or two days before the molt, animals lower activity and dominance and feeding levels, exhibit reclusive behavior, and sometimes seal the cavity entrance.
  • (14) Cases reported totaled 414 for Rocky Mountain spotted fever, 334 for Lyme disease, 143 black widow and 478 brown recluse spider bites and 4,975 fire ant stings.
  • (15) Paul Kennedy, representing Nimmo, described his client as of previous good character, adding: "He is a social recluse, that is exactly what he is really, he rarely leaves the house but to empty the bins.
  • (16) According to testimonies from workers and defectors, labourers from the reclusive state said they receive almost no salaries in person while in the Gulf emirate during the three years they typically spend there.
  • (17) Guests on the night included the reclusive mining magnate and media player Gina Rinehart and media baron Rupert Murdoch, and Abbott was introduced on the occasion by influential Melbourne columnist and broadcaster Andrew Bolt.
  • (18) • Doubles from €72 B&B, +351 282 624 212, memmohotels.com 12 Seaside riad , Olhão Facebook Twitter Pinterest A leading (if reclusive) Portuguese architect and his family run Convento , a very sexy riad-style, nine-bedroom ex-convent house hidden in the medina of this charming, salty fishing town.
  • (19) I know nothing at all about him.” Because Mair was so reclusive, few people do.
  • (20) "Someone called me the Howard Hughes of childcare because I'm so reclusive," she says.

Shyness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being shy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Strachan, whose shyness is routinely disguised by attempts at comedy, responded with a wave.
  • (2) The results revealed that shyness and social phobia have a number of similar features.
  • (3) Examination of a number of major studies of personality questionnaires reveals the existence of a shyness factor which is related to but separable from both introversion and neuroticism, and which loads on items referring to feeling uncomfortable and self-conscious, and keeping in the background in certain kinds of social situations.
  • (4) Animals receiving low-intensity electrical stimulation of the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala while drinking plain tap water were injected with toxic doses of lithium chloride to examine whether brain stimulation can serve as a conditioned stimulus in a bait-shyness paradigm.
  • (5) Furthermore, profiles of emotions experienced by youths with a depressive disorder differed significantly from emotion profiles of nondepressed youths on the following emotions: enjoyment, surprise, sadness, anger, shame, shyness, guilt, and self-directed hostility.
  • (6) They have an outrageously provocative nature that's combined with real shyness and awkwardness.
  • (7) Previously proposed personality correlates of passivity, shyness, and dependency were also in evidence.
  • (8) In conversation, he is a curious mix of openness and a sweet, faintly diffident shyness.
  • (9) Unexpectedly, the shyness of adolescents highly sensitive to an imaginary audience increased with age, possibly because they are unwilling to provide themselves with the social experiences necessary for decentering.
  • (10) Compared with findings in manic subjects, the dimensional score for Harm Avoidance was elevated in all affective groups, "worry and pessimism" was elevated in mixed-state subjects, "shyness with strangers" was elevated in depressed and nonaffective subjects, and "attachment" was lower in depressed and nonaffective subjects.
  • (11) Twenty-three volunteer subjects were compared with 23 (matched) control subjects on self and parental ratings of anxiety, depression, shyness-sensitivity, sleeping difficulties, perfectionism, psychosomatic problems (unrelated to headache), other behavioural disturbances, major life stress events and parental expectations (i.e.
  • (12) Love-shyness is believed to be the result of a genetic-biologically rooted temperament and learning experiences with peers and family.
  • (13) His teachers made accommodations for his painful shyness and he graduated with the grades and test scores that got him into Virginia Tech.
  • (14) These results support the self-presentational view that fear of being socially evaluated is pivotal to dispositional shyness.
  • (15) Discussion focuses on the implications of these data for the measurement and conceptualization of shyness.
  • (16) All the children presented psychological alterations, especially misanthropy and shyness.
  • (17) Sex differences in the strategic use of shyness are discussed in relation to other research on sex differences in the etiology and correlates of social anxiety.
  • (18) Sending ability was positively related to teacher's ratings of activity level, aggressiveness, impulsiveness, bossiness, sociability, etc., and negatively related ti shyness, cooperation, emotional inhibition and control, etc.
  • (19) These findings suggest that the construct of shyness shows a strong continuity from preschool age through adulthood.
  • (20) Phase 2 compared the five shyness measures with one another on indices of internal consistency and with other relevant measures of emotionality, personality, relationships, and behavior.

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