Embarrassment vs Dejection - What's the difference?
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A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
A state of confusion arising from hesitation or difficulty in choosing.
A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.
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(medical) Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment .
a state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues
The act of humbling or abasing oneself.
A low condition; weakness; inability.
(medicine, archaic) Defecation or feces.
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Embarrassment is a related term of dejection.
As nouns the difference between embarrassment and dejection
is that embarrassment is a state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation while dejection is dejection, defecation.embarrassment
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''Kevin, you are an embarrassment to this family.
- ''Losing this highly publicized case was an embarrassment to the firm.
Derived terms
* embarrassment of richesExternal links
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English
Noun
(en noun)- Adoration implies submission and dejection . — Bishop Pearson.
- A dejection of appetite. — Arbuthnot.
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citation, pageurl=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=usPFfQCrZmcC&pg=PA103&dq=dejections , isbn=9781429044141 , page=103 , passage=His dejections were frequent, loose, changing in character from hour to hour, made up of undigested food, of mucus and watery fluid, varying in color, mostly green, and never healthy in consistence, color, or odor.}}
citation, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=FTfWiens6csC&pg=PA206&dq=dejections , isbn=9788170211761 , pages=205-206 , passage=Chorera infantum may begin as an attack of acute indigestion, or, what is more frequently the case, suddenly, with severe vomiting and copious dejections , high fever and rapid prostration.}}