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n. - Embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you; The state of being tense and feeling pain.

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  • Anyways, you and I both could hear and see that "uncomfortableness" if you will in her.
  • "Coming from South India, you're always very timid, you're within your shell ... we always think that, you know, maybe I don't fit here, that kind of uncomfortableness,"...
  • "There was never an uncomfortableness about it," Hekmat says.
  • He felt again the uncomfortableness of being so far from home.
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