noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being lumbering; awkwardness, ponderousness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- 1869, Topics of the Day. A Forecast of the Session, The Spectator, Volume 42, p. 188, 13 February, 1869, [...] the one doubt in the public mind as to parliamentary government, the one cause which is so visibly alarming to the “philosophers” who influence the masses, is the excessive, sometimes the intolerable, lumberingness of its action.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided