nuisance value

1. 1.

   the quality of an embarrassing situation

   “he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal”

   Synonymsawkwardness

   Broaderdisadvantage

Questions about nuisance value

What does nuisance value mean?

nuisance value means "the quality of an embarrassing situation".

What is another word for nuisance value?

Close synonyms include awkwardness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nuisance value a common word?

nuisance value is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.