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embarrassingness

embarrassingness noun: the state or quality of being embarrassing.

Noun

embarrassingness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being embarrassing.
    • […] and without the least show of embarrassment, or, to be just, of embarrassingness, he advanced to the bedside and held out his hand.1923, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 214
    • 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.2001, Drew V. McDermott, Mind and Mechanism, page 6

Origin of embarrassingness

From embarrassing + -ness.

Questions about embarrassingness

What does embarrassingness mean?
Embarrassingness means the state or quality of being embarrassing.
What part of speech is embarrassingness?
Embarrassingness is a noun.

Words near embarrassingness in the dictionary

  1. embarrasses
  2. embarrassin'
  3. embarrassing
  4. embarrassingly
  5. embarrassingly parallel
  6. embarrassingness
  7. embarrassings
  8. embarrassment
  9. embarrassment of riches
  10. embarrassments
  11. embarrassments of riches

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