uncomfortableness

noun

Discomfort, especially uneasiness associated with awkwardness, embarrassment, or self-consciousness.

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Meanings

noununcomfortableness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableDiscomfort, especially uneasiness associated with awkwardness, embarrassment, or self-consciousness.

    It took away all the uncomfortableness, and we felt mighty good over it, because it would a been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft; […]

    1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 188

    Synonyms: uncomfiness, uncomfortability

Synonyms & antonyms

nounDiscomfort, especially uneasiness associated with awkwardness, embarrassment, or self-consciousness.

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uncomfinessuncomfortability

More synonyms by meaning

nounthe state of being tense and feeling pain

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discomfort
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conditionstatus

nounembarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you

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self-consciousnessuneasiness
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embarrassment
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discomfortself-consciousnessuneasiness

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From uncomfortable + -ness.

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Translations

Spanish incomodidad, birria
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Cite this entry
APA

uncomfortableness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncomfortableness

MLA

“uncomfortableness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncomfortableness. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uncomfortableness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncomfortableness.

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