hokeyness

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English

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Etymology

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From hokey +‎ -ness.

Noun

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hokeyness (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of hokiness
    • 2008 January 25, Alessandra Stanley, “Fishing for True Confessions by Dangling a Pot of Gold”, in New York Times[1]:
      The hokeyness is also all too familiar: smoke and mirrors (literally), overwrought music and well-scrubbed, overly rehearsed contestants who cry and laugh on cue.