hokeyness en · NOUN
Etymology
From hokey + -ness.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of hokiness.
alt of hokiness
The hokeyness is also all too familiar: smoke and mirrors (literally), overwrought music and well-scrubbed, overly rehearsed contestants who cry and laugh on cue.
2008 January 25, Alessandra Stanley, “Fishing for True Confessions by Dangling a Pot of Gold”, in New York Times: