• IPA: /ˈmɒd.ə.sti/

modesty (uncountable)

1. The quality of being modest; having a limited and not overly high opinion of oneself and one's abilities.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

2. Moderate behaviour; reserve.
3. (specifically) Pudency, avoidance of sexual explicitness.

• immodesty
• extravagance
• impudence

• modestly

• French: modestie
• German: Bescheidenheit
• Italian: modestia
• Portuguese: modéstia
• Russian: скро́мность
• Spanish: modestia

• Russian: скро́мность
• Spanish: modestia

• French: pudeur
• Russian: скро́мность
• Spanish: pudor