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ecchiness

ecchiness noun: the quality of being or resembling ecchi ("a genre, especially of anime and manga, featuring playful, tongue-in-cheek usage of sexualized scenes and situations such as double entendre or flirtation, while remaining non-pornographic").

Noun

ecchiness (uncountable)

  1. (slang) The quality of being or resembling ecchi ("a genre, especially of anime and manga, featuring playful, tongue-in-cheek usage of sexualized scenes and situations such as double entendre or flirtation, while remaining non-pornographic").
    • Just to clarify KareKano really only has Ecchiness in the form of Asaba and even then it's...whacked.2000 August 13, Touga no Miko and her many artbooks, “Kazemakase Tsukikage Ran”, in alt.anime.shoujo (Usenet)
    • ...Demo... you shouldn't watch it all at once, you should savour your ecchiness like a fine wine. You see, ecchiness is very much like a beautiful woman. Hard to see the ecchi side is. You pay, you wait, you pay, you wait - sometimes you only get as far as customs, sometimes you get all the way......2002 June 16, Ziggy, “momorio sisters”, in uk.media.animation.anime (Usenet)

Examples of ecchiness in a sentence

  • ...Demo... you shouldn't watch it all at once, you should savour your ecchiness like a fine wine.2002 June 16, Ziggy, “momorio sisters”, in uk.media.animation.anime (Usenet):
  • Even the supposed "ecchiness" is pathetic - there's more ecchiness in most episodes of Keroro Gunsou and that is broadcast at 10 AM on Saturday mornings.2005 January 28, Dave Baranyi, “Negima 4 - my take”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Origin of ecchiness

From ecchi + -ness.

Questions about ecchiness

What does ecchiness mean?
Ecchiness means the quality of being or resembling ecchi ("a genre, especially of anime and manga, featuring playful, tongue-in-cheek usage of sexualized scenes and situations such as double entendre or flirtation, while remaining non-pornographic").
How do you use ecchiness in a sentence?
...Demo... you shouldn't watch it all at once, you should savour your ecchiness like a fine wine.
What part of speech is ecchiness?
Ecchiness is a noun.

Words near ecchiness in the dictionary

  1. eccentrometer
  2. eccentrometers
  3. eccer
  4. ECCEs
  5. ecchi
  6. ecchiness
  7. eccho
  8. ecchoes
  9. ecchondroma
  10. ecchondromas
  11. ecchondromata

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