Violating this, or any socially agreed upon situational definition produces feelings of awkwardness and discomfort because we are disrupting the social order.
A socially awkward chess whizz, 22-year-old Ivan falls in love with Margaret-who, at 36, has escaped her alcoholic husband but not the judgments of her small town.
Mr. Bounderby looked very hard at the good lady in a side-long way that had an odd sheepishness about it. He fortified himself with a little more sherry.