Noun
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: WordNetLiterature 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