Meanings
- uncountableThe state, quality, or condition of being lurky
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?
2016, Ginger Scott, The Falling Series Boxed Set1 more example
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 [...]
1833, Reuben Percy, John Timbs, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Origin
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lurkiness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lurkiness
“lurkiness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lurkiness. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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