Embarrassment vs Wretchedness - 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 .
An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 3
A state of prolonged misfortune, privation or anguish.
Embarrassment is a related term of wretchedness.
As nouns the difference between embarrassment and wretchedness
is that embarrassment is a state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation while wretchedness is an unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.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
* *wretchedness
English
Noun
(en-noun)- She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation.