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CLUMSINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
Synonyms:
awkwardness; clumsiness; gracelessness; stiffness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("clumsiness" is a kind of...):
inelegance (the quality of lacking refinement and good taste)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clumsiness"):
woodenness (the quality of being wooden and awkward)
gaucherie; rusticity (the quality of being rustic or gauche)
Derivation:
clumsy (not elegant or graceful in expression)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant
Synonyms:
awkwardness; clumsiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("clumsiness" is a kind of...):
bearing; carriage; posture (characteristic way of bearing one's body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clumsiness"):
gracelessness; ungracefulness (an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression)
gawkiness; ungainliness (the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant)
stiffness (the property of moving with pain or difficulty)
Derivation:
clumsy (lacking grace in movement or posture)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
Synonyms:
awkwardness; clumsiness; ineptitude; ineptness; maladroitness; slowness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("clumsiness" is a kind of...):
unskillfulness (a lack of cognitive skill)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clumsiness"):
rustiness (ineptitude or awkwardness as a consequence of age or lack of practice)
Derivation:
clumsy (showing lack of skill or aptitude)
