Word.ws English Dictionary

hokiness

hokiness noun: the state or condition of being hoky.

Noun

hokiness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being hoky.
    • And if, as Mr. Ma rightly said, hybridization can lead to creativity, it can also lead to hokiness at times, and there was a touch of that in what remained of the orchestration here.2009 June 8, James R. Oestreich, “Tale of Love and Death Along the Fabled Silk Road”, in New York Times

Origin of hokiness

From hoky + -ness.

Questions about hokiness

What does hokiness mean?
Hokiness means the state or condition of being hoky.
What part of speech is hokiness?
Hokiness is a noun.

Words near hokiness in the dictionary

  1. Hokien
  2. hokier
  3. Hokies
  4. hokiest
  5. hokily
  6. hokiness
  7. hoking
  8. hoking up
  9. Hokitika
  10. Hokkaido
  11. Hokkaido wolf

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hokiness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hokiness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hokiness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.