Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

disconcertion

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dis-con-cer-tion
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Anxious embarrassment

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Shadows flickered like disconcertion across their bestial faces as they saw the three men rising to meet them instead of fleeing."
"One of the reasons that Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and Pee-wee himself, caused so much disconcertion was that the world the characters inhabited was supposedly childlike and innocent, which, in our warped culture, means not sexual. But Pee-wee displayed that "innocence" as little more than sexual repression."

Usage

Uncountable

Frequently Paired Words

disconcerted disconcertingly

Synonyms

discomfiture discomposure disconcertment

Questions

What does disconcertion mean?: Anxious embarrassment

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