Embarrassment - Definition
embarrassment
n 1: the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made
public
2: the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial
inadequacy); "he is currently suffering financial
embarrassments"
3: some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; "the
outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals"
[ant: disembarrassment]
4: extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches" [syn:
overplus, plethora, superfluity, embarrassment]