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Creepiness

Creepiness \Creep"i*ness\ (-[i^]-n[e^]s), n. An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin.

She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness.
--Mrs. Alexander.

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creepiness

n. The state of being creepy

Usage examples of "creepiness".

Gately hadn't been much into WYYY or Madame Psychosis, but he'd sometimes run into people who were Organics men, mostly, opium and brown heroin, terrible mulled wine and he feels on top of the febrile pain and the creepiness of the amphetaminic-wraith and Winston-Churchill-face-Joelle-and angelic-maternal-Death-Joelle-drearns an odd vividness in himself at being swabbed and maybe even generally admired by someone who's an underground local intellectual-dash-art-type celebrity.

That had been a week ago, and since then the voices, the scuffling noises in the shadows, the general creepiness, had been nearly constant.

The creepiness of Ted’s children’s-story voice was also a way of setting up the detachment with which he tells Eddie and Ruth the story of the death of his sons.

Maybe it would have been even more genuine, in Graham's opinion, if there'd been some creepiness, but it was missing.

The General had some of the creepiness that illuminated Jennifer and something of the fox about him.

He had caught her as the incarnation of beauty—yet she, too, had some of the creepiness he’d put into his portraits of Jennifer.

The haunted mood of the moment, being exacerbated as it was by the creepiness of the weather, wasn't helping any.

Perhaps it was expectation or the creepiness of the surroundings that gave her the extra energy, but she knew she couldn't stop until she'd reached wherever it was that was calling her.

There was creepiness behind those eyes, residue from some long-smoldering resentment that couldn't have anything to do with me, but felt as if it had everything to do with me.

As if the Foo dogs weren't enough to scare the shit out of me, I had this added little creepiness to deal with.