lurkiness

English

Etymology

From lurky +‎ -ness.

Noun

lurkiness (uncountable)

  1. The state, quality, or condition of being lurky
    • 1833, Reuben Percy, John Timbs, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction:
      The natural solitariness and asperity of a spot, the immobility and lurkiness of the lake, the extreme denseness of the foliage, together with the almost cavernous gloom which such a concurrence of causes produced, were seen in awful contrast [...]
    • 2016, Ginger Scott, The Falling Series Boxed Set:
      I've been trying to remember the instructor's full name ever since the tutoring session. I remembered his first name, Paul, but that's all that was coming to mind when he was hovering over me with his hot-ass breath and...I don't know...lurkiness?
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