Clumsiness Definition

clumsiness
noun
  1. unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
  2. the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant
  3. the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

Synonyms for clumsiness

awkwardness

unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training the quality of an embarrassing situation

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gracelessness

an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed

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ineptitude

unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful

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ineptness

unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose

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slowness

unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry lack of normal

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stiffness

the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend the property of moving with pain or difficulty

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