gracelessness

Other forms: gracelessnesses

Definitions of gracelessness
  1. noun
    an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression
    synonyms: ungracefulness
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    type of:
    awkwardness, clumsiness
    the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant
  2. noun
    the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
    synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, stiffness
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    types:
    woodenness
    the quality of being wooden and awkward
    gaucherie, rusticity
    the quality of being rustic or gauche
    type of:
    inelegance
    the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
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