Embarrassment vs Lunacy - 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 .
(of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity
# a cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases
# insanity implying legal irresponsibility.
Something deeply misguided.
Embarrassment is a related term of lunacy.
As nouns the difference between embarrassment and lunacy
is that embarrassment is a state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation while lunacy is (of a person or group of people) the state of being mad, insanity.embarrassment
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''Kevin, you are an embarrassment to this family.
- ''Losing this highly publicized case was an embarrassment to the firm.