awkwardness

Noun

Meaning

the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant

unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape

the quality of an embarrassing situation

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

ineptitude clumsiness ineptness slowness stiffness inelegance discomfiture maladroitness gracelessness cumbersomeness unwieldiness nuisance value Jena difficulty confusion
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Antonyms

gracefulness grace amendment reason experience knowledge
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Hypernyms

bearing disadvantage carriage posture inconvenience inelegance

Hyponyms

rusticity stiffness gaucherie rustiness gracelessness gawkiness

Related terms

awkwardly

Phrases with the word

awkwardness phase

Examples

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. Helen Keller

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Awkwardness gives me great comfort. Marc Jacobs

Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness. Daniel Radcliffe

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars. Jane Austen

Dior is like a big adolescent with old- fashioned shyness of as schoolboy and most charming in his childish awkwardness. Christian Dior

Close letter words and terms

awkwardly awkwardly phrased awkwardly said awkwardness phase awkwardnessful awkwards