embarrassingness
English
Etymology
embarrassing + -ness
Noun
embarrassingness (uncountable)
- 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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