"embarrassment" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɪmˈbæɹəsmənt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-embarrassment.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-embarrassment.wav [US] Forms: embarrassments [plural]
Etymology: From embarrass + -ment. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|embarrass|ment}} embarrass + -ment Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} embarrassment (countable and uncountable, plural embarrassments)
  1. A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Emotions Translations (state of discomfort): إحْرَاج (ʔiḥrāj) [masculine] (Arabic), збянтэ́жанасць (zbjantéžanascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), со́рам (sóram) [masculine] (Belarusian), притеснение (pritesnenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), стеснение (stesnenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), barrancu (Campidanese Sardinian), avergonyiment [masculine] (Catalan), تەریقی (terîqî) (Central Kurdish), verlegenheid [feminine] (Dutch), kiusaantuneisuus (Finnish), nolostuminen (Finnish), häpeä (Finnish), embarras [masculine] (French), Verlegenheit [feminine] (German), Peinlichkeit [feminine] (German), Betretenheit [feminine] (German), शर्म (śarm) [feminine] (Hindi), शर्मिंदगी (śarmindgī) [feminine] (Hindi), imbarazzo (Italian), aniutanga (Maori), sjenerthet (Norwegian), sjenanse (Norwegian), forlegenhet (Norwegian), unnselighet (Norwegian), unnseelse (Norwegian), zażenowanie [neuter] (Polish), vergonha [feminine] (Portuguese), jenă [feminine] (Romanian), смуще́ние (smuščénije) [neuter] (Russian), стесне́ние (stesnénije) [neuter] (Russian), стыд (styd) [masculine] (Russian), mpicciu [masculine] (Sicilian), vergüenza [feminine] (Spanish), corte [Spain, colloquial, masculine] (Spanish), bochorno (Spanish), pena (note: Caribbean Islands, Central America, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela - colloquial) [feminine] (Spanish), plancha [Chile, colloquial, masculine] (Spanish), pudor (note: Uruguay - formal usage in other countries) [Argentina, Chile, especially, masculine] (Spanish), roche [Peru, colloquial, masculine] (Spanish), dalang-hiya (Tagalog), збенте́ження (zbentéžennja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), со́ром (sórom) [masculine] (Ukrainian), שאַנדע (shande) [feminine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-embarrassment-en-noun-~pJT9S2f Disambiguation of Emotions: 35 21 23 4 10 6 Disambiguation of 'state of discomfort': 57 3 1 36 1 2
  2. A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (person whose actions cause humiliation): häpeäpilkku (Finnish), häpeäksi (Finnish), honte (de) (être la) [feminine] (French), vergonha [feminine] (Portuguese), позо́р (pozór) [masculine] (Russian), позо́рище (pozórišče) [neuter] (Russian), שאַנדע (shande) [feminine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-embarrassment-en-noun-zoyDjVuz Disambiguation of 'person whose actions cause humiliation': 10 81 4 0 2 2
  3. A large collection of good or valuable things, especially one that exceeds requirements or causes some sort of hindrance. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-embarrassment-en-noun-P~4dfV1U Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ment Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 21 7 38 2 20 12 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 15 8 38 3 18 18 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ment: 17 11 36 4 16 16
  4. A state of confusion; hesitation; uncertainty Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (state of confusion): объркване (obǎrkvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), смущение (smuštenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 困窘 (kùnjiǒng) (Chinese Mandarin), hämmennys (Finnish), embarras [masculine] (French), Verlegenheit [feminine] (German), замеша́тельство (zamešátelʹstvo) [neuter] (Russian), затрудне́ние (zatrudnénije) [neuter] (Russian), смяте́ние (smjaténije) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-embarrassment-en-noun-S8ESsmJw Disambiguation of 'state of confusion': 21 0 0 78 0 0
  5. (medicine) Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-embarrassment-en-noun-L5c8RgNF Topics: medicine, sciences
  6. (dated) Difficulty in financial matters; poverty. Tags: countable, dated, uncountable
    Sense id: en-embarrassment-en-noun-udQI5204
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: criterion of embarrassment, embarrassment of riches, empathic embarrassment, how embarrassment, inductive embarrassment, secondhand embarrassment, vicarious embarrassment

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          "roman": "être la",
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          "word": "позо́р"
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          "word": "позо́рище"
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          "ref": "1996, David Morgan Evans, Peter Salway, David Thackray, The Remains of Distant Times: Archaeology and the National Trust, Boydell & Brewer, page 188",
          "text": "The landscape presented an embarrassment of riches for the industrial archaeologist, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century remains were still visible in abundance",
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "smjaténije",
      "sense": "state of confusion",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "смяте́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person whose actions cause humiliation",
      "word": "häpeäpilkku"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person whose actions cause humiliation",
      "word": "häpeäksi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "roman": "être la",
      "sense": "person whose actions cause humiliation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "honte (de)"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "person whose actions cause humiliation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vergonha"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pozór",
      "sense": "person whose actions cause humiliation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "позо́р"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pozórišče",
      "sense": "person whose actions cause humiliation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "позо́рище"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "shande",
      "sense": "person whose actions cause humiliation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "שאַנדע"
    }
  ],
  "word": "embarrassment"
}

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