disconcertion
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
disconcertion (uncountable)
- Anxious embarrassment
- 1982, Stephen R. Donaldson, The One Tree:
- Shadows flickered like disconcertion across their bestial faces as they saw the three men rising to meet them instead of fleeing.
- 1991 August 10, Michael Bronski, “'I Know You Are, But What Am I?'”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 4, page 6:
- One of the reasons that Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and Pee-wee himself, caused so much disconcertion was that the world the characters inhabited was supposedly childlike and innocent, which, in our warped culture, means not sexual. But Pee-wee displayed that "innocence" as little more than sexual repression.