Definitions
Etymologies
- quirky + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Sasha's 'quirkiness' is what makes her so interesting and different from most of the cookie-cutter accidental sleuths out there now.”
“A perception of quirkiness is not what you want in a VP candidate - ask George McGovern.”
“There’s a certain quirkiness inherent in the call-and-response between pre-rap quasi-singer Fred Schneider and the harmonious pair of Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson that permeates the B-52s sound.”
“This wan, fey little Australian film stretches the notion of quirkiness far past the snapping point -- though the film itself has very little in the way of snap.”
The Huffington Post: Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Griff the Invisible
“The result of the superabundance of high achieving secondary school youngsters is that many of the top schools in the nation have taken the "quirkiness" out of the student body - and the rebelliousness of intellect, style, and thought, that is often ultimately critical to doing something of importance other than law or medicine.”
“Over and above the first-rate reporting that made the Murrow Boys (not one Murrow girl in the bunch) stand out was a kind of quirkiness that enhanced rather than detracted from their stories.”
“While I get the desire to avoid the "quirkiness" of the carrot jockeys not my favorite anyway I think the book will get more spontaneous attention with a mis-spelled cake or something a little more obvious.”
“You could see without … NICKSON: That kind of quirkiness is quite typical of Finnish music.”
“He's a ONE TRICK pony and that trick is "quirkiness".”
“I can be deadly serious, [but] sometimes when the kind of quirkiness that is part of our profession hits me then I can be funny for a while.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘quirkiness’.
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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begins with "qu"
"Qu..." seems to produce some extraordinarily euphonious words.
quiescent, quantifiable, quadrilateral, quackery, quaff, quadrennial, quadruplicate, quaking aspen, qualmish, quandaries, quark, quartziferous and 31 more...
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MEC1 Lesson 118
delve, instantly, purr, fur, merciless, stalker, pray, range, trip, inscrutable, rise, dweller and 20 more...
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things i like
activities, objects, people, food
friends, trying on dresses, agatha christie, clarinet, yaya dacosta, bangs, flirting, walking, gerunds, big band, antm, film soundtracks and 78 more...
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