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Noun awkwardness has 5 senses
- awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness - unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
--1 is a kind of unskillfulness
- awkwardness, nuisance value - the quality of an embarrassing situation; "he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal"
--2 is a kind of disadvantage
- awkwardness, clumsiness - the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant
--3 is a kind of carriage, bearing, posture
Antonyms: gracefulness
--3 has particulars:
- awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness - the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
--4 is a kind of inelegance
--4 has particulars: rusticity, gaucherie
- awkwardness, cumbersomeness, unwieldiness - trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape; "the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano"
--5 is a kind of troublesomeness, inconvenience, worriment
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