Hokiness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or condition of being hoky. uncountable

    "And if, as Mr. Ma rightly said, hybridization can lead to creativity, it can also lead to hokiness at times, and there was a touch of that in what remained of the orchestration here."

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"And if, as Mr. Ma rightly said, hybridization can lead to creativity, it can also lead to hokiness at times, and there was a touch of that in what remained of the orchestration here."

Etymology

From hoky + -ness.

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