awkwardness vs stiffness

awkwardness and stiffness both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
awkwardness	Yes	No	No	No
stiffness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, stiffness is a hyponym of awkwardness; that is, stiffness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than awkwardness:

awkwardness: the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant
stiffness: the property of moving with pain or difficulty

Other hyponyms of awkwardness include gracelessness, ungracefulness, gawkiness, ungainliness.

As nouns, awkwardness and stiffness are synonyms defined as:

awkwardness and stiffness: the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

Other synonyms of awkwardness include clumsiness, gracelessness.

awkwardness (noun)	stiffness (noun)
the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant	the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend
the quality of an embarrassing situation	the property of moving with pain or difficulty
trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape	the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)	excessive sternness
unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training	firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action

awkwardness vs stiffness

awkwardness and stiffness both are nouns.

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