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(slang, derogatory) The state of being schmucky, of being a schmuck; jerkiness, stupidity, foolishness, ineptitude..
[Jack Nicholson's character Jonathan:] Bad vibrations? Sandy, I love you, but you're a schmuck. You were always young, Sandy, open. You were schmucky a lot of the time, but maybe schmuckiness is what you need to stay young and open.
But on his second tour of the housing developments - that's when the first little bit of schmuckiness started creeping in.
Use schmuckiness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Schmuckiness means (slang, derogatory) The state of being schmucky, of being a schmuck; jerkiness, stupidity, foolishness, ineptitude..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[Jack Nicholson's character Jonathan:] Bad vibrations? Sandy, I love you, but you're a schmuck. You were always young, Sandy, open. You were schmucky a lot of the time, but maybe schmuckiness is what you need to stay young and open.
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