Other forms: embarrassments
Embarrassment is an uncomfortable feeling of shame in front of others. Acute embarrassment, to my embarrassment, an embarrassment to the family.
It needs an audience, real or imagined, which is what separates it from guilt. An embarrassment of riches is a fixed phrase meaning so much of a good thing that choosing is difficult.
1nounembarrassmentAn uncomfortable feeling of shame in front of others.
“His face went red with embarrassment when he realised he'd been singing out loud.”
embarrassment is a feeling.
French
embarrasser
English
embarrass
English, today
embarrassment
Built from
From embarrass + -ment. embarrass Borrowed from French embarrasser. Borrowed from French embarrasser, from Middle French embarrasser, embarasser (“to embarrass; to block, obstruct”), from Spanish embarazar, either from Italian imbarazzare or from Portuguese embaraçar.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA