Uncomfortableness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Discomfort, especially uneasiness associated with awkwardness, embarrassment, or self-consciousness. uncountable

    "It took away all the uncomfortableness, and we felt mighty good over it, because it would a been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft; […]"

  2. 2
    embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you wordnet
  3. 3
    the state of being tense and feeling pain wordnet

Synonyms

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angstanguishanxietyblahsboredomdiscomfort

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"It took away all the uncomfortableness, and we felt mighty good over it, because it would a been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft; […]"

Etymology

From uncomfortable + -ness.

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self consciousness

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