clumsiness

English

Etymology

clumsy +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklʌm.zi.nəs/

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Noun

clumsiness (countable and uncountable, plural clumsinesses)

1. A lack of coordination or elegance; the condition or quality of being clumsy.

   He dropped them not out of spite, but out of clumsiness.

Translations

the condition or quality of being clumsy

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 笨拙 (zh) (bènzhuō)

• Finnish: kömpelyys (fi)
• French: maladresse (fr) f, inélégance (fr) f
• Georgian: მოუქნელობა (moukneloba)
• German: Ungeschicklichkeit f, Plumpheit f, Unbeholfenheit f
• Greek: αδεξιότητα (el) f (adexiótita)
• Hungarian: otrombaság
• Irish: liopastacht f

• Italian: goffaggine (it) f, inettitudine f, sgraziataggine f
• Japanese: ふき (ja) (fuki), ドジ (doji), 不手際 (ふてぎわ, futegiwa)
• Portuguese: desajeitamento m
• Russian: неуклю́жесть (ru) f (neukljúžestʹ), неповоро́тливость (ru) f (nepovorótlivostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гло̏ма̄зно̄ст f, не̏згра̄пно̄ст f

  Roman: glȍmāznōst (sh) f, nȅzgrāpnōst (sh) f

• Swedish: klumpighet c