embarrassment

CEFRB2

/ɪmˈbæɹ.əs.mənt/

noun

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01
noun
A feeling of shame or awkwardness.
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noun
Extra detail
A large collection of good or valuable things, especially one that exceeds requirements or causes some sort of hindrance.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.
A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
A state of confusion; hesitation; uncertainty.

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The desired effect [of affectionate teasing] is a look of pleasurable embarrassment, as if you administered a compliment. Anyone who doesn't stop teasing immediately upon producing real embarrassment, anger or tears is not really teasing.
1998 February 22, Judith Martin, “Tease and sympathy”, in The Washington Post
The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in recent months.
2014 August 21, “A brazen heist in Paris [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times
There are over 5,000 Americans now in Paris, many artists, singers, musicians, writers, and actors, so many, indeed, the committee could hardly pick a program from an embarrassment of volunteers.
1914, Collier's, page 30
The landscape presented an embarrassment of riches for the industrial archaeologist, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century remains were still visible in abundance
1996, David Morgan Evans, Peter Salway, David Thackray, The Remains of Distant Times: Archaeology and the National Trust, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 188
At one time, I reflected, we'd had an embarrassment of good, qualified squad leader—ready men in the platoon.
2013, Frank Boccia, The Crouching Beast: A United States Army Lieutenant's Account of the Battle for Hamburger Hill, May 1969, McFarland, →ISBN, page 256

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From embarrass + -ment.