What does disconcertion mean?
Disconcertion means Anxious embarrassment.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Anxious embarrassment.
Shadows flickered like disconcertion across their bestial faces as they saw the three men rising to meet them instead of fleeing.
One of the reasons that Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and Pee-wee himself, caused so much disconcertion was that the world the characters inhabited was supposedly childlike and innocent, which, in our warped culture, means not sexual. But Pee-wee displayed that "innocence" as little more than sexual repression.
Use disconcertion when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Disconcertion means Anxious embarrassment.
Common synonyms include discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertment.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Shadows flickered like disconcertion across their bestial faces as they saw the three men rising to meet them instead of fleeing.
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