inelegance vs awkwardness

awkwardness vs inelegance

inelegance and awkwardness both are nouns.

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

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

inelegance: the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
awkwardness: the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)

Other hyponyms of inelegance include clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness, dowdiness, drabness, homeliness, manginess, seediness, shabbiness, sleaziness, tweediness, coarseness, commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity, crudeness, roughness, boorishness, uncouthness, inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, tastelessness.

inelegance (noun)	awkwardness (noun)
the quality of lacking refinement and good taste	the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant
	the quality of an embarrassing situation
	trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape
	the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
	unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

Difference between inelegance and awkwardness

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