embarrassment

noun

1 Louise's heightened color betrayed her embarrassment:

awkwardness, self-consciousness, unease, uneasiness, discomfort, discomfiture, edginess;

shame, humiliation, mortification, ignominy;

sheepishness, shyness, bashfulness;

discomposure, flusteredness, perturbation, confusion, agitation, distress, chagrin.

▷antonyms confidence.

2 his current financial embarrassment:

difficulty, predicament, plight, problem, mess, entanglement, imbroglio;

dilemma, quandary;

informal bind, jam, pickle, fix, scrape.

3 an embarrassment of riches:

surplus, excess, overabundance, superabundance, profusion, glut, surfeit, superfluity, more than enough, too many, too much, enough and to spare;

avalanche, deluge, flood, abundance, plethora.

▷antonyms dearth.