gracelessness

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English

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Etymology

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From graceless +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gracelessness (countable and uncountable, plural gracelessnesses)

  1. The state of being graceless.
    • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel[1], Part Three, Chapter 3:
      He was aware of his ugliness, his gracelessness, a bundle of bones in filthy underclothes sitting weeping in the harsh white light: but he could not stop himself.