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Written by Stan Carey on 2025-01-06 at 18:26

AWKNESS sounds like a millennial coinage, but it's a word centuries old meaning "wrongness, irrationality, perversity, untowardness, awkwardness, ineptitude".

That definition is from the OED, which labels AWKNESS obsolete. But it's been reinvented: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2021/01/28/awkness-an-old-word-made-new-again/

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Written by blterrible on 2025-01-06 at 18:40

@stancarey That's so fetch.

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Written by Stan Carey on 2025-01-06 at 19:18

@blterrible It's happening!

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Written by Cavyherd on 2025-01-06 at 19:42

@stancarey

Which of course gives the word "awkward" a new resonance 😂

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