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Noun embarrassment has 4 senses
- embarrassment - the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
--1 is a kind of shame
--1 has particulars: | | self-consciousness, uneasiness, uncomfortableness; shamefacedness, sheepishness; chagrin, humiliation, mortification; confusion, discombobulation; abashment, bashfulness; discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disconcertment |
- embarrassment - the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy); "he is currently suffering financial embarrassments"
--2 is a kind of emotional state, spirit
- embarrassment - some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals"
--3 is a kind of trouble
Antonyms: disembarrassment
- overplus, plethora, superfluity, embarrassment - extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches"
--4 is a kind of excess, excessiveness, inordinateness
--4 has particulars: redundancy, redundance
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