Embarrassingness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Embarrassingness is a noun meaning The state or quality of being embarrassing.
Meaning
The state or quality of being embarrassing.
Example Sentences
[…] and without the least show of embarrassment, or, to be just, of embarrassingness, he advanced to the bedside and held out his hand.
Philosophers use the word quale to describe the "ringyness" of the experience of a bell, the redness of the experience of red, the embarrassingness of an experience of embarrassment, and so forth.
Unintellectual he may be, but Gately's reactions to the maudlin embarrassingness and awfulness of AA's precepts sound very much like Wallace's in “An Ex-Resident's Story,” and for this reader they provide the realest and most beautiful and exact account of the author's own experiences.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include embarrassability, ashamedness, awkwardness, disgracefulness, unembarrassedness, shamefulness.
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