Definition of Cumbersomeness

1. Noun. Trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape. "The movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano"

Exact synonyms: Awkwardness, Unwieldiness
Generic synonyms: Inconvenience, Troublesomeness, Worriment
Derivative terms: Awkward, Cumbersome, Unwieldy

Definition of Cumbersomeness

1. Noun. The state of being cumbersome ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cumbersomeness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cumbersomeness

cumber
cumber-ground
cumber ground
cumberbund
cumberbunds
cumbered
cumberer
cumberers
cumberground
cumbergrounds
cumbering
cumberless
cumbers
cumbersome
cumbersomely
cumbersomeness (current term)
cumbia
cumbias
cumbrance
cumbrances
cumbre
cumbrous
cumbrously
cumbrousness
cumbrousnesses
cumbuckets
cumdumps
cumdumpster

Literary usage of Cumbersomeness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law in Business Problems: Cases and Other Materials for the Study of by Lincoln Frederick Schaub, Nathan Isaacs (1921)
"The cumbersomeness of the Anglo-American system of procedure and the uncertainty and limitations attendant upon it have forced business men to seek other ..."

2. The Child Labor Bulletin by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) (1914)
"Objection would doubtless be made to any such plan on the ground both of cumbersomeness and of expense, but, to the writer at least, it seems evident that ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"Specific names, although often without fitness or significance' have, for the most part, remained simple. The cumbersomeness of generic ..."

4. Transactions by European Orthodontic Society, Lina Oswald, Northern Ohio Dental Society, Ossory Archaeological Society, Wentworth Historical Society, Society of Automobile Engineers (1902)
"While these devices fill the requirements of being able always to obtain the maximum cutting speed, the complication and cumbersomeness of the device is not ..."

5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1904)
"Such would be quite useless on account of its very cumbersomeness. But for the sake of keeping the literature somewhat in view, references are given, first, ..."

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