awkwardness

About 0.75 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The state or quality of being awkward; clumsiness; unskillfulness.
2. noun The quality of an embarrassing situation.

Similar words

clumsiness maladroitness unwieldiness inconvenience slowness cumbersomeness ineptness ineptitude gracelessness stiffness

Often followed by

of and in that or with is which was

Word family

awkward awkwarder awkwardest awkwardly awkwardnesses