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CREEPINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does creepiness mean? 

CREEPINESS (noun)
  The noun CREEPINESS has 1 sense:

1. an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skinplay

  Familiarity information: CREEPINESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CREEPINESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("creepiness" is a kind of...):

feeling; tactile sensation; tactual sensation; touch; touch sensation (the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin)

Derivation:

creepy (causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin)


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