ickiness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.14 in modern English

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noun

The state or condition of being icky.

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"Then Sara opened up her teapot to remove the tea bag and gasped, “There is an ickiness in here!” and of course Leroy got all excited and peered in at what first seemed to be a small brain."
"If I could pull your mind away from ickinesses—sorry, I don't really like talking about this stuff. . ."
"I had much more vivid horrors than Lovecraft's nameless ickinesses to write about now."

ickinesses (plural)

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