embarrassingness

English

Etymology

embarrassing +‎ -ness

Noun

embarrassingness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being embarrassing.
   • 1923, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 214:

     […] and without the least show of embarrassment, or, to be just, of embarrassingness, he advanced to the bedside and held out his hand.

   • 2001, Drew V. McDermott, Mind and Mechanism‎^[1], page 6:

     Philosophers use the word quale to describe the "ringyness" of the experience of a bell, the redness of the experience of red, the embarrassingness of an experience of embarrassment, and so forth.

   • 2014, Robert K. Bolger, Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy‎^[2]:

     Unintellectual he may be, but Gately's reactions to the maudlin embarrassingness and awfulness of AA's precepts sound very much like Wallace's in “An Ex-Resident's Story,” and for this reader they provide the realest and most beautiful and exact account of the author's own experiences.