awkwardness
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[edit]awkwardness (usually uncountable, plural awkwardnesses)
- The state or quality of being awkward; clumsiness; unskillfulness.
- 1849, Minutes of the committee of council on education, page 82:
- […] instead of the joyous voices of his playfellows he hears the rough commands of an unindulgent master or a scolding mistress; — he is continually reproached for his awkwardness and timidity, and reminded of his pauper origin.
- The quality of an embarrassing situation.
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[edit]the state or quality of being awkward
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the quality of an embarrassing situation
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂epó
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *wert-
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