Meaning & use
Eeriness
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A quality of being strange and frightening in a way that seems mysterious or supernatural.
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There was an unsettling eeriness to the abandoned amusement park at night.
The fog added to the eeriness of the old cemetery.
A note on using this word
Eerie originally comes from a Scots and northern English word related to fear or timidity before it settled into its modern sense of 'spooky.'
Words with a similar meaning
spookinessstrangenessuncanniness
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Words with an opposite meaning
normalcyordinariness
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