wackness

English

Etymology

From wack +‎ -ness, popularized by The Wackness, a 2008 coming-of-age film.

Pronunciation

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Noun

wackness (usually uncountable, plural wacknesses)

1. (slang) Badness; contemptibility
   • 2009, Ali Eteraz, Children of Dust, →ISBN:

     Kyla said she was delighted to meet other Pakistanis. When I'd made the appointment with her I had been too, but now my enthusiasm was dead. I was worried that Moosa would impute her wackness onto me.

   • 2014, David Shapiro, You're Not Much Use to Anyone, →ISBN, page 166:

     I don't have that problem. I just look at the dopeness. But you, it's like you just look at the wackness?”

   • 2015, Brendan Halpin, Donorboy, →ISBN:

     She says school is wack and that is certainly a point of view I am coming around to as everything that used to seem important to me is now kind of amazing in its wackness.