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Noun: unwieldiness  `ún'weel-dee-nus
  1. 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. Trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape
    "the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano"
    - awkwardness, cumbersomeness

Derived forms: unwieldinesses

See also: unwieldy

Type of: inconvenience, troublesomeness, worriment [US]