noun
- Unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training.
- synonyms: awkwardness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness
- The carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant.
- synonyms: awkwardness
- The inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment. ).
- synonyms: awkwardness, gracelessness, stiffness
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