embarrassingness

Definitions

The state or quality of being embarrassing.

uncountable

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Examples

“[…] 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.”

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