inelegance vs clumsiness

clumsiness vs inelegance

inelegance and clumsiness both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hyponyms of inelegance include awkwardness, 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)	clumsiness (noun)
the quality of lacking refinement and good taste	the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant
	the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
	unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

Difference between inelegance and clumsiness

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