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Embarrassment vs Lunacy - What's the difference?

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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)
  • 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

    lunacy

    English

    Noun

  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (state of being mad) insanity

    Derived terms

    * lunatic