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Inconvenience vs Embarrassment - What's the difference?

inconvenience | embarrassment | Related terms |

Inconvenience is a related term of embarrassment.


As nouns the difference between inconvenience and embarrassment

is that inconvenience is the quality of being inconvenient while embarrassment is a state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.

As a verb inconvenience

is to bother; to discomfort.

inconvenience

English

Noun

  • The quality of being inconvenient.
  • * Hooker
    • They plead against the inconvenience , not the unlawfulness, of ceremonies in burial.
  • Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
  • * Tillotson
    • Man is liable to a great many inconveniences .
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    Synonyms

    * (something inconvenient) annoyance, nuisance

    Verb

    (inconvenienc)
  • to bother; to discomfort

    • Synonyms

    * (obsolete) discommodate

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    embarrassment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
    • ''Kevin, you are an embarrassment to this family.
    ''Losing this highly publicized case was an embarrassment to the firm.
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  • (medical) Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment .

    • Derived terms

    * embarrassment of riches

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