awkwardness   (TTS Sound)

The noun awkwardness has 5 senses

• awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness -- (unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training)


• awkwardness, nuisance value -- (the quality of an embarrassing situation; "he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal")


• awkwardness, clumsiness -- (the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant)


• awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness -- (the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment))


• awkwardness, cumbersomeness, unwieldiness -- (trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape; "the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano")