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Awkwardness Common

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Awkwardness has 6 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

2

the quality of an embarrassing situation

"he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal"

3

the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant

4

the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

5

trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape

"the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano"

6

The state or quality of being awkward; clumsiness; unskillfulness.

Related Terms
Antonyms
gracefulness
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
unskillfulness disadvantage carriage inelegance troublesomeness
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
rustiness gracelessness gawkiness stiffness woodenness rusticity
Rhyming Words
ess 1ess ress ness tess hess kess wess jess fess yess sess less bess cess mess guess 1aess gless cress
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