English-French translations for diffidence

• timidité
  En fait, cette timidité est compréhensible, car derrière la simplicité de la question se dissimule un ensemble d'interrogations fort complexe. This diffidence is in fact understandable, because the simplicity of the question conceals a series of very complex issues.
  L'initiative de certains est accueillie, d'une part, avec une indifférence presque totale de la majorité et, d'autre part, avec une certaine timidité par la minorité. The initiative of some is met, on the one hand, with the virtual indifference of the majority and, on the other, with a certain diffidence of the minority.

Definition of diffidence

• The state of being diffident, timid or shy; reticence or self-effacement
• Mistrust, distrust, lack of confidence in someone or something

Related words

• difficult
• difficulty
• diffident
• difficulties
• difficultly
• difficile
• diffidently
• difficult to understand
• difficult laborious