wackness

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noun

Badness; contemptibility

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounwackness (usually uncountable, plural wacknesses)

plural wacknesses

  1. slanguncountableusuallyBadness; contemptibility

    I don't have that problem. I just look at the dopeness. But you, it's like you just look at the wackness?”

    2014, David Shapiro, You're Not Much Use to Anyone, →ISBN, page 166
    2 more examples

    Kyla said she was delighted to meet other Pakistanis. When I'd made the appointment with her I had been too, but now my enthusiasm was dead. I was worried that Moosa would impute her wackness onto me.

    2009, Ali Eteraz, Children of Dust, →ISBN

    She says school is wack and that is certainly a point of view I am coming around to as everything that used to seem important to me is now kind of amazing in its wackness.

    2015, Brendan Halpin, Donorboy, →ISBN

Origin

From wack + -ness, popularized by The Wackness, a 2008 coming-of-age film.

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APA

wackness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wackness

MLA

“wackness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wackness. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wackness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wackness.

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