aukwardness

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A form of awkwardness — The state or quality of being awkward; clumsiness; unskillfulness.

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Meanings

nounaukwardness (countable and uncountable, plural aukwardnesses)

plural aukwardnesses

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of awkwardness.

    I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural aukwardness.

    1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XVII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 220

Origin

From aukward + -ness.

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Chicago

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