awkwardness

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
awkward/ˈɔːkwəd/

▶adjective

• 1 hard to do or deal with.

• 2 causing or feeling uneasy embarrassment.

• 3 not smooth or graceful.

– derivatives
awkwardly adverb,
awkwardness noun.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘the wrong way round, upside down’): from dial. awk (from ON afugr) + -ward.