embarrassingness

English

Etymology

embarrassing +‎ -ness

Noun

embarrassingness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being embarrassing.
    • 1923, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 214:
      […] and without the least show of embarrassment, or, to be just, of embarrassingness, he advanced to the bedside and held out his hand.
    • 2001, Drew V. McDermott, Mind and Mechanism‎, page 6:
      Philosophers use the word quale to describe the "ringyness" of the experience of a bell, the redness of the experience of red, the embarrassingness of an experience of embarrassment, and so forth.
    • 2014, Robert K. Bolger, Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy‎:
      Unintellectual he may be, but Gately's reactions to the maudlin embarrassingness and awfulness of AA's precepts sound very much like Wallace's in “An Ex-Resident's Story,” and for this reader they provide the realest and most beautiful and exact account of the author's own experiences.
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