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QUIRKINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quirkiness mean?
• QUIRKINESS (noun)
The noun QUIRKINESS has 1 sense:
1. a strange attitude or habit
Familiarity information: QUIRKINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A strange attitude or habit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
crotchet; oddity; queerness; quirk; quirkiness
Hypernyms ("quirkiness" is a kind of...):
strangeness; unfamiliarity (unusualness as a consequence of not being well known)
Derivation:
quirky ((informal) strikingly unconventional)
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