"clumsiness" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈklʌm.zi.nəs/ Audio: en-us-clumsiness.ogg [US] Forms: clumsinesses [plural]
Etymology: clumsy + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|clumsy|ness}} clumsy + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} clumsiness (countable and uncountable, plural clumsinesses)
  1. A lack of coordination or elegance; the condition or quality of being clumsy. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the condition or quality of being clumsy): 笨拙 (bènzhuō) (Chinese Mandarin), kömpelyys (Finnish), maladresse [feminine] (French), inélégance [feminine] (French), მოუქნელობა (moukneloba) (Georgian), Ungeschicklichkeit [feminine] (German), Plumpheit [feminine] (German), Unbeholfenheit [feminine] (German), αδεξιότητα (adexiótita) [feminine] (Greek), ügyetlenség (Hungarian), liopastacht [feminine] (Irish), amscaíocht [feminine] (Irish), ciotrúntacht [feminine] (Irish), goffaggine [feminine] (Italian), inettitudine [feminine] (Italian), sgraziataggine [feminine] (Italian), ふき (fuki) (Japanese), ドジ (doji) (Japanese), 不手際 (futegiwa) (alt: ふてぎわ) (Japanese), kaburaldalan (Kapampangan), keburaldalan (Kapampangan), desajeitamento [masculine] (Portuguese), неуклю́жесть (neukljúžestʹ) [feminine] (Russian), неповоро́тливость (nepovorótlivostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), гло̏ма̄зно̄ст [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), не̏згра̄пно̄ст [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), glȍmāznōst [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), nȅzgrāpnōst [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), klumpighet [common-gender] (Swedish), klantighet [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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