Synonyms for clumsiness
Most common
awkwardness ineptitude ineptness slowness stiffness gracelessness
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Awkwardness
2. Stiffness
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
A lack of coordination or elegance; the condition or quality of being clumsy.
He dropped them not out of spite, but out of clumsiness.
Forms
- Plural
- clumsinesses → awkwardnesses, ineptitudes, ineptnesses, slownesses…
Example sentences
- awkwardness The feeling of awkwardness did not leave me.
- 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.
- ineptness "Jerk" connotes an embarrassing social and verbal ineptness.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| clumsiness | rising | |
| awkwardness | rising | |
| ineptitude | steady | |
| slowness | steady | |
| ineptness | falling | |
| inelegance | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 8 letters
- slowness2
- 9 letters
- stiffness2, ineptness3
- 10 letters
- ineptitude4, inelegance
- 11 letters
- awkwardness3
- 13 letters
- maladroitness, gracelessness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (slowness2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- maladresse
- Italiano
- goffaggine
- Español
- torpeza
- Deutsch
- Ungeschick