awkwardness

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Etymology

From awkward +‎ -ness.

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Noun

awkwardness (usually uncountable, plural awkwardnesses)

  1. 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.
  2. The quality of an embarrassing situation.

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