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Webster 1913 Edition

Clumsiness

Clum′si-ness

,

Noun.

The quality of being clumsy.

The drudging part of life is chiefly owing to

clumsiness

and ignorance.

Collier.

Webster 1828 Edition

Clumsiness

CLUMSINESS

,

Noun.

The quality of being short and thick, and moving heavily; awkwardness; unhandiness; ungainliness; want of readiness, nimbleness or dexterity.

Definition 2024

clumsiness

clumsiness

English

Noun

clumsiness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural clumsinesses)

A lack of coordination or elegance; the condition or quality of being clumsy.
He dropped them not out of spite, but out of clumsiness.

Translations

the condition or quality of being clumsy

Chinese:
Mandarin: 笨拙 (zh) ‎(bènzhuō)
Finnish: kömpelyys (fi)
French: maladresse (fr) f, inélégance (fr) f
Georgian: მოუქნელობა ‎(moukneloba)
German: Ungeschicklichkeit f, Plumpheit f, Unbeholfenheit f
Greek: αδεξιότητα (el) f ‎(adexiótita)
Hungarian: otrombaság
Irish: liopastacht f

Italian: goffaggine (it) f, inettitudine f, sgraziataggine f
Japanese: ふき (ja) ‎(fuki), ドジ ‎(doji), 不手際 ‎(ふてぎわ, futegiwa)
Portuguese: desajeitamento m
Russian: неуклю́жесть (ru) f ‎(neukljúžestʹ), неповоро́тливость (ru) f ‎(nepovorótlivostʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: гло̏ма̄зно̄ст f, не̏згра̄пно̄ст f

Roman: glȍmāznōst (sh) f, nȅzgrāpnōst (sh) f
Swedish: klumpighet c