Lurkiness
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state, quality, or condition of being lurky uncountable
"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 [...]"
Example
More examples"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 [...]"
Etymology
From lurky + -ness.
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