EERINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eeriness mean? 

• EERINESS (noun)
  The noun EERINESS has 1 sense:

1. strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear

  Familiarity information: EERINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EERINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

eeriness; ghostliness

Hypernyms ("eeriness" is a kind of...):

strangeness; unfamiliarity (unusualness as a consequence of not being well known)

Derivation:

eery (inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening)

 Context examples 

The eeriness of the lamp’s glow triggered an error signal in the visual system.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)