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/ˈklʌm.zi.nəs/ · noun
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."
Use clumsiness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Clumsiness means A lack of coordination or elegance; the condition or quality of being clumsy..
Common synonyms include ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, awkwardness.
Possible antonyms include gracefulness.
He dropped them not out of spite, but out of clumsiness.
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