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Meaning of gawkiness in English:

gawkiness

noun

See gawky

‘In the e-mail, I thought to myself, I would explicate my apparent teenage gawkiness from the previous day as the consequence of being mortifyingly embarrassed and hapless.’
  • ‘They are magnificent, but they have a certain gawkiness about them.’
  • ‘My adolescent hormones, gawkiness, acne, hair that refused to be tamed - all left me constantly on the verge of tears.’
  • ‘He also had brown hair and a slightly endearing gawkiness to him - he hadn't quite grown into his very long limbs yet.’
  • ‘The film captures an essential truth of adolescence, its simultaneous gawkiness and glory.’