Embarrassingness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being embarrassing. uncountable

    "[…] and without the least show of embarrassment, or, to be just, of embarrassingness, he advanced to the bedside and held out his hand."

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"[…] and without the least show of embarrassment, or, to be just, of embarrassingness, he advanced to the bedside and held out his hand."

Etymology

From embarrassing + -ness.

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