modesty

modestie, humilité

Qualité d’une personne qui ne met pas en avant ses talents, ses réussites ou son importance.

En anglais simple : The quality of not drawing attention to your own abilities, achievements, or importance.

• I admire her modesty.
• He accepted the award with modesty.
• There is no need for false modesty about your success.

Comment l'utiliser : modesty about something (Her modesty about her achievements impressed us.)

Synonymes : humility, unpretentiousness

Contraires : arrogance, conceit

Expressions courantes : false modesty, with modesty, modesty about something, genuine modesty

pudeur

Fait de couvrir son corps ou d’éviter les vêtements jugés trop révélateurs.

En anglais simple : The practice of covering your body or avoiding clothes considered too revealing.

• She wore a shawl for modesty.
• The school has strict rules about modesty in dress.
• Ideas about modesty differ between cultures.

Synonymes : decency, propriety

Contraires : immodesty

Expressions courantes : modesty in dress, for modesty, standards of modesty