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clumsiness

noun
/ˈklʌm.zi.nəs/

Etymology

From clumsy + -ness.

  1. derived from *klumsa✻
  2. inherited from clumsen
  3. suffixed as clumsy — “clumse + y”
  4. suffixed as clumsiness — “clumsy + ness”

Definitions

  1. A lack of coordination or elegance

    A lack of coordination or elegance; the condition or quality of being clumsy.

    • He dropped them not out of spite, but out of clumsiness.
    • "Pardon my clumsiness," he said to the lady. "I am, unfortunately, quite blind. But," he added, with a smile, to turn off the mishap, "even a blind man must have a house."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for clumsiness. 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