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gaucheness

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Definition of gaucheness word

  • noun gaucheness The quality of being gauche. 1

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Parts of speech for Gaucheness

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

gaucheness popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 90% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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Synonyms for gaucheness

noun gaucheness

  • uncouth — awkward, clumsy, or unmannerly: uncouth behavior; an uncouth relative who embarrasses the family.
  • awkwardness — lacking skill or dexterity. Synonyms: clumsy, inept; unskillful, unhandy, inexpert. Antonyms: deft, adroit, skillful, dexterous; handy.
  • tactlessness — lacking tact; showing no tact; undiplomatic; offendingly blunt: a tactless remark.
  • graceless — without any sense of right or propriety.
  • clumsiness — awkward in movement or action; without skill or grace: He is very clumsy and is always breaking things.

Antonyms for gaucheness

noun gaucheness

  • poise — a centimeter-gram-second unit of viscosity, equal to the viscosity of a fluid in which a stress of one dyne per square centimeter is required to maintain a difference of velocity of one centimeter per second between two parallel planes in the fluid that lie in the direction of flow and are separated by a distance of one centimeter. Symbol: P.

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