Definitions of clumsiness
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the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant
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synonyms:
awkwardness
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Antonyms:
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gracefulness
beautiful carriage
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types:
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gracelessness, ungracefulness
an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression
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gawkiness, ungainliness
the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant
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stiffness
the property of moving with pain or difficulty
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gracefulness
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the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
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synonyms:
awkwardness, gracelessness, stiffness
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types:
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woodenness
the quality of being wooden and awkward
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gaucherie, rusticity
the quality of being rustic or gauche
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type of:
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inelegance
the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
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woodenness
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unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
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synonyms:
awkwardness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness
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types:
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rustiness
ineptitude or awkwardness as a consequence of age or lack of practice
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type of:
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unskillfulness
a lack of cognitive skill
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rustiness
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