diff --git a/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/huggingface.py b/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/huggingface.py
index 068aafa1fe1..60f4ecb4435 100644
--- a/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/huggingface.py
+++ b/libs/community/langchain_community/embeddings/huggingface.py
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ class HuggingFaceEmbeddings(BaseModel, Embeddings):
     """Keyword arguments to pass when calling the `encode` method of the model."""
     multi_process: bool = False
     """Run encode() on multiple GPUs."""
+    show_progress: bool = False
+    """Whether to show a progress bar."""
 
     def __init__(self, **kwargs: Any):
         """Initialize the sentence_transformer."""
@@ -88,7 +90,9 @@ class HuggingFaceEmbeddings(BaseModel, Embeddings):
             embeddings = self.client.encode_multi_process(texts, pool)
             sentence_transformers.SentenceTransformer.stop_multi_process_pool(pool)
         else:
-            embeddings = self.client.encode(texts, **self.encode_kwargs)
+            embeddings = self.client.encode(
+                texts, show_progress_bar=self.show_progress, **self.encode_kwargs
+            )
 
         return embeddings.tolist()