WOODENNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being wooden and awkward

Example:

there was a certain woodenness in his replies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("woodenness" is a kind of...):

awkwardness; clumsiness; gracelessness; stiffness (the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment))

Derivation:

wooden (lacking ease or grace)