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disconcertion

disconcertion noun: anxious embarrassment.

Noun

disconcertion (uncountable)

  1. Anxious embarrassment
    • Shadows flickered like disconcertion across their bestial faces as they saw the three men rising to meet them instead of fleeing.1982, Stephen R. Donaldson, The One Tree
    • 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...1991 August 10, Michael Bronski, “'I Know You Are, But What Am I?'”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 4, page 6

Questions about disconcertion

What does disconcertion mean?
Disconcertion means anxious embarrassment.
What part of speech is disconcertion?
Disconcertion is a noun.

Words near disconcertion in the dictionary

  1. disconcerteth
  2. disconcerting
  3. disconcertingly
  4. disconcertingness
  5. disconcertings
  6. disconcertion
  7. disconcertment
  8. disconcertments
  9. disconcerts
  10. disconcordance
  11. disconcordances

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