Quality of the modest. It means simplicity, recato, discretion, shyness, humility, poverty. Name of an asteroid. It lacks vanity, pride or smugness. In Greek mythology it was called Aidos and in Roman Puditicia.
Modesty-this is the asteroid discovered by astronomer A. H. Charlois on July 14, 1893-
MODESTY: Asteroid number 370, of the series.