DISCONCERTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disconcertion mean? 

• DISCONCERTION (noun)
  The noun DISCONCERTION has 1 sense:

1. anxious embarrassment

  Familiarity information: DISCONCERTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCONCERTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Anxious embarrassment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

discomfiture; discomposure; disconcertion; disconcertment

Hypernyms ("disconcertion" is a kind of...):

embarrassment (the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public)

anxiety (a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune)

Derivation:

disconcert (cause to lose one's composure)

disconcert (cause to feel embarrassment)