embarrassment

noun embarrassments

1. countable, uncountable A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation. The desired effect [of affectionate teasing] is a look of pleasurable embarrassment, as if you administered a compliment. Anyone who doesn't stop teasing immediately upon producing real embarrassment, anger or tears is not really teasing.
2. countable, uncountable A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another. Jack, you are an embarrassment to this family.
3. countable, uncountable A large collection of good or valuable things, especially one that exceeds requirements or causes some sort of hindrance. There are over 5,000 Americans now in Paris, many artists, singers, musicians, writers, and actors, so many, indeed, the committee could hardly pick a program from an embarrassment of volunteers.
4. countable, uncountable A state of confusion; hesitation; uncertainty. […]and render them more intelligible than all the commentaries which have been written on them, for they generally render the authour more obscure, and lead the reader into greater embarrassments, by what they explain, than by what they leave untouched.
5. countable, uncountable Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment.
6. countable, dated, uncountable Difficulty in financial matters; poverty.
7. collective, countable, uncountable A group of pandas (ie. red panda, giant panda) In Wolong, the captive panda population has increased from just eight bears to 330-the largest embarrassment of pandas in the world.