excess vs embarrassment

embarrassment vs excess

excess and embarrassment both are nouns.

excess is an adjective but embarrassment is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
excess	Yes	Yes	No	No
embarrassment	Yes	No	No	No

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

excess: immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits
embarrassment: extreme excess

Other hyponyms of excess include extravagance, extravagancy, exorbitance, outrageousness, overplus, plethora, superfluity, extraneity, extraneousness.

excess (noun)	embarrassment (noun)
excessive indulgence	extreme excess
immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits	some event that causes someone to be embarrassed
a quantity much larger than is needed	the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
the state of being more than full	the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)

excess (adjective)	embarrassment (adjective)
more than is needed, desired, or required

Difference between excess and embarrassment

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