eeriness.

An unsettling or frightening strangeness that seems mysterious.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• the eeriness of the silence
• an atmosphere of eeriness

On the page

The absence of any echo gave the stairwell an eeriness she could not explain.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, atmosphere. Commonness: moderately common.