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awkwardness

noun

Etymology

From awkward + -ness.

  1. derived from *abuhaz✻
  2. derived from ǫfugr
  3. inherited from awke
  4. suffixed as awkward — “awk + ward”
  5. formed as awkwardness — “awkward + -ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being awkward

    The state or quality of being awkward; clumsiness; unskillfulness.

    • […] 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.

The neighborhood

Derived

awkwardnessful

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for awkwardness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA