wonkiness

State of imbalance

Wonkiness is the quality of being wonky—unstable, off-kilter, or not quite right.

A table with wonkiness wobbles.

A plan with wonkiness has flaws that make it unreliable: There's some wonkiness in the data that we need to sort out.

In British use especially, wonkiness can describe physical crookedness: the charming wonkiness of the old cottage's walls.

imbalance

lopsidedness

State of being uneven

tilt · slant · misalignment · crookedness · off-kilter · wobble · distortion · irregularity · disproportion · deviation

quirkiness

eccentricity

Unconventional behavior or nature

weirdness · strangeness · kookiness · offbeatness · unconventionality · bizarreness · whimsicality · unpredictability · glitchiness · bugginess

instability

shakiness

State of quivering

teetering · tottering · rickety · looseness · flimsiness · give · play · rocking · swaying · trembling

Opposites
physical alignment

wonkinessstraightness

Absence of curvature

evenness · alignment · levelness · symmetry · squareness

stability/reliability

wonkinessstability

Resistance to displacement

steadiness · firmness · solidity · reliability · sturdiness

normality/correctness

wonkinesscorrectness

State of being accurate

normality · regularity · properness · conventionality · orthodoxy

Family

wonky, wonkish, wonkier, wonkiest

Familiarity
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G