encumbrance
- n an onerous or difficult concern
 - n a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)
 - n any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
 
- Despite this sort of encumbrance, Jiang says he is confident that the book will find a mainstream Western audience, and believes that foreigners may even "be able to understand the .
 - She attributes the gesture to "that good old-fashioned encumbrance of mine, the desire to please.
 - He just saw them as superfluous, an encumbrance.