noun
1. an unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression
• Syn: ↑ungracefulness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑ungraceful (for: ↑ungracefulness)
• Hypernyms: ↑awkwardness, ↑clumsiness
2. the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
• Syn: ↑awkwardness, ↑clumsiness, ↑stiffness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑stiff (for: ↑stiffness), ↑graceless, ↑clumsy (for: ↑clumsiness), ↑awkward (for: ↑awkwardness)
• Hypernyms: ↑inelegance
• Hyponyms: ↑woodenness, ↑rusticity, ↑gaucherie
Useful english dictionary. 2012.