What's the difference between shyness and slyness?

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.

Slyness


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This enigma occurs as a result of the suffering, the violence and the slyness inherent to creativity, in the sense that his own accomplishments are inexorably questionable because of the ubiquitous presence of the tragic and das Unheimliche.
  • (2) But one senses a cynicism, a manipulatory slyness, about those performers.
  • (3) He leads with quiet slyness, kindness and confidence – and 30 years of experience practicing those traits.

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