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CREEPINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does creepiness mean?
• CREEPINESS (noun)
The noun CREEPINESS has 1 sense:
1. an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin
Familiarity information: CREEPINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("creepiness" is a kind of...):
feeling; tactile sensation; tactual sensation; touch; touch sensation (the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin)
Derivation:
creepy (causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin)
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