含がん羞しゅう

noun

shyness; bashfulness

Literary or formal term for shyness; not used in casual conversation. Modern Japanese more commonly uses 恥ずかしがり屋 or 内気.

• 彼かれの含がん羞しゅうは、初しょ対たい面めんの人ひとには特とくに強つよく現あらわれる。

  His shyness shows especially strongly with people he meets for the first time.

• 含がん羞しゅうの念ねんにかられて、彼かの女じょはうつむいた。

  Overcome by a feeling of bashfulness, she looked down.