The quality or state of being gawky; awkwardness, clumsiness, or ungainliness in movement or appearance.
From 'gawky' plus '-ness' suffix (forming abstract nouns from adjectives); standard English nominalization following productive '-ness' suffix patterns.
The '-ness' suffix is English's workhorse for creating abstract concepts—gawkiness turns the adjective 'gawky' into something you can discuss philosophically, like 'the gawkiness of youth' becomes a recognized human condition.
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