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embarrassingness en · NOUN

Etymology

From embarrassing + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being embarrassing.
    • 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. 2014, Robert K. Bolger, Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy:
    • 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:
    • […] 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:

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