Synonyms for awkwardness
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Clumsiness
2. Stiffness
3. Cumbersomeness
Definitions
- n. 1
The state or quality of being awkward; clumsiness; unskillfulness.
- n. 2
The quality of an embarrassing situation.
Related words
- Word family
- awkwardly
Forms
- Plural
- awkwardnesses → clumsinesses, ineptitudes, ineptnesses, slownesses…
Example sentences
- ineptitude He tried to conceal his ineptitude in a not-so-deft sleight of hand.
- slowness My daughter's slowness to take action is a pain.
- clumsiness Your clumsiness will get you into big trouble one day.
- ineptness "Jerk" connotes an embarrassing social and verbal ineptness.
- stiffness She stretched to relieve the stiffness in her back.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| awkwardness | rising | |
| ineptitude | steady | |
| slowness | steady | |
| clumsiness | rising | |
| ineptness | falling | |
| stiffness | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 8 letters
- slowness2
- 9 letters
- stiffness2, ineptness3
- 10 letters
- ineptitude4, clumsiness3, inelegance, clunkiness
- 12 letters
- discomfiture, unwieldiness4
- 13 letters
- inconvenience4, maladroitness, gracelessness
- 14 letters
- cumbersomeness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (slowness2 = 2 syllables).