GRACELESSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gracelessness mean? 

• GRACELESSNESS (noun)
  The noun GRACELESSNESS has 2 senses:

1. an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression

2. the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

  Familiarity information: GRACELESSNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRACELESSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

gracelessness; ungracefulness

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

awkwardness; clumsiness (the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

awkwardness; clumsiness; gracelessness; stiffness

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

inelegance (the quality of lacking refinement and good taste)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gracelessness"):

woodenness (the quality of being wooden and awkward)

gaucherie; rusticity (the quality of being rustic or gauche)

Derivation:

graceless (lacking social polish)

graceless (lacking grace; clumsy)