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awkwardness

 
Noun awkwardness has 5 senses
  1. awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness - unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
    --1 is a kind of unskillfulness
  2. awkwardness, nuisance value - the quality of an embarrassing situation; "he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal"
    --2 is a kind of disadvantage
  3. 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:
     gracelessness, ungracefulness; gawkiness, ungainliness; stiffness
  4. 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
  5. 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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