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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unwieldinessnoun

    the quality of being difficult to direct or control by reason of complexity

    "avoiding the unwieldiness of formal legal processes"; "the onset of unwieldiness and bureaucracy in large organizations"

  2. awkwardness, cumbersomeness, unwieldinessnoun

    trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape

    "the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano"

Wiktionary

  1. unwieldinessnoun

    The characteristic of being unwieldy.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Unwieldinessnoun

    Heaviness; difficulty to move, or be moved.

    To what a cumbersome unwieldiness,
    And burdenous corpulence my love had grown,
    But that I made it feed upon
    That which love worst endures, discretion. John Donne.

    The supposed unwieldiness of its massy bulk, grounded upon our experience of the inaptitude of great and heavy bodies to motion, is a mere imposture of our senses. Joseph Glanvill.

ChatGPT

  1. unwieldiness

    Unwieldiness refers to the state or condition of being difficult to move, control, or handle due to size, shape, complexity, or weight. It can also refer to the difficulty or awkwardness in managing, operating or dealing with something because of its intricacies, complications, or cumbersome nature.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of unwieldiness in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of unwieldiness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1


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